Haibun—a prose poem that incorporates one or more haiku—is rapidly growing in popularity, with entire journals now devoted to the genre. Charles Trumbull will briefly explain the key points of haibun-style prose, haiku, and how the two work together to create something larger that the sum of the parts. Most of the session will be devoted to writing and critiquing haibun.

Charles Trumbull was born in Michigan, grew up in New Mexico, and was educated at Yale and Notre Dame universities. Trained as a specialist in the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, he worked in jobs that had to do with American-Russian communication at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc.. When the U.S.S.R. disappeared, he jumped over to a job as Director of Yearbooks at Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., in Chicago, where he remained until retirement in 2007. He lives in Evanston, Ill Charlie got reacquainted with haiku in 1991, literally on a bet. Immediately bitten by the haiku bug, he has since served as newsletter editor (1996–2002) and president (2004–05) of the Haiku Society of America, a founder of Chi-ku, the Chicago-area haiku club, an organizer of Haiku North America—Chicago (2001), a biannual continent-wide gathering of haiku poets, and proprietor of Deep North Press, a publisher of haiku books with 14 titles in print. Since March 2006 he has been editor of Modern Haiku, the oldest haiku journal outside Japan.

Rosalind Brackenbury | Cricket Desmarais | Catherine Doty | Barry George | Lee Gurga | Richard Grusin

Bob Muens | Dr. Michael Wyndham Thomas | Charles Trumbull