"Natural Moments: A Haiku Reading at The Green Center"
featuring St. Louis poets and published authors
Ben Gaa & Robert Lowes
July 29, 2024 at 7:00pm
Experience Mother Nature with your ears and your imagination on Monday, July 29, at 7 p.m. in an evening of haiku and other nature poetry by published poets Ben Gaa and Robert Lowes at The Green Center. A literary import from Japan, haiku creates a single “now” moment and captures humankind’s connection to the natural world (an otherwise identical Japanese form called senryu focuses on human society). Whether it’s written in English or Japanese, good haiku—about possum teeth, a trellis-climbing clematis, or a conversation about cicadas—will stop time in its tracks.
Ben Gaa is your “friendly neighborhood haiku poet” and host of Haiku Talk on YouTube. He’s the author of two full-length collections of haiku and senryu, One Breath (Spartan Press 2020), and the Touchstone Award winning Wishbones (Folded Word 2018), as well as four chapbooks, the High/Coo award winner One Note Moon (Brooks Books 2023), Fiddle in the Floorboards (Yavanika Press 2018), Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (Poor Metaphor Design 2014) and the Pushcart nominated Wasp Shadows (Folded Word 2014). With over 1000 haiku and senryu published in journals and anthologies around the globe, he enjoys both giving and attending poetry readings and workshops and being part of the literary conversation.
Ben Gaa is your “friendly neighborhood haiku poet” and host of Haiku Talk on YouTube. He’s the author of two full-length collections of haiku and senryu, One Breath (Spartan Press 2020), and the Touchstone Award winning Wishbones (Folded Word 2018), as well as four chapbooks, the High/Coo award winner One Note Moon (Brooks Books 2023), Fiddle in the Floorboards (Yavanika Press 2018), Blowing on a Hot Soup Spoon (Poor Metaphor Design 2014) and the Pushcart nominated Wasp Shadows (Folded Word 2014). With over 1000 haiku and senryu published in journals and anthologies around the globe, he enjoys both giving and attending poetry readings and workshops and being part of the literary conversation.
Robert Lowes is a St. Louis writer and author of two poetry collections, An Honest Hunger (Resource Publications, 2020) and Shocking the Dark (Kelsay Books, 2024). His poetry has appeared in journals such as The New Republic, Southern Poetry Review, December, the Journal of the American Medical Association and leading haiku publications such as Frogpond. A past president of the St. Louis Poetry Center, he plays rhythm guitar in a band called Pink Street.
Admission is free but you must register to attend due to limited seating.
Questions? Contact Jan at joberkramer@thegreencenter or 314-725-8314 X 102
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