Why is haiku the world’s most popular form of poetry? This workshop is the place to find out why millions of people find haiku both irresistible and enlightening. Lee will show you the only book you need to write haiku (not his!) and his workshop will allow you to advance from novice to adept in a single afternoon.

LEE GURGA is an award-winning haiku poet and editor of Modern Haiku, the oldest and most respected journal of haiku and haiku studies outside Japan, as well as haiku columnist for Solares Hill newspaper in Key West, Florida.

He is a past president of the Haiku Society of America. His books In & Out of Fog and Fresh Scent were awarded “First Prize” in the Haiku Society of America Book Awards; his Haiku: A Poet’s Guide was recognized by the HSA as the “Best Book of Criticism” for 2004. He has assisted Japanese poet Emiko Miyashita in the translation of four books of Japanese haiku, two of which were recognized with a “Best Book of Translations” award by the Haiku Society of American. He was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Poetry Fellowship for his work in haiku in 1998. He was the guest speaker at the fifteenth anniversary celebration of the Haiku International Association in Tokyo in November 2005. He lives and works as a general dentist in the farming community of Lincoln, Illinois.