Poetry Workshop featuring Jennifer Hambrick - In-Person Option

This is a hybrid event. In-person and virtual registrations are separate. This is the registration for in-person attendance. If you wish to attend virtually (via Zoom), please go to this link:

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About the Workshop “Beyond the Death Match: How to Write Haiku ... Really,” and “Let’s Change the Subject.”

For National Poetry Month, OPA presents a workshop double feature with poet Jennifer Hambrick!

A great divide exists between the world of “mainstream” lyric poetry and the world of English-language haiku and related Japanese genres. The time has come to bridge the gap. Ohio poet Jennifer Hambrick has two feet planted firmly in each world and has received national awards for her poetry and criticism in both lyric poetry and haikai genres. In two workshops, Hambrick will share aspects of her unique four-footed approach to working in genres on both sides of the divide.

Join Hambrick at 1:00 for “Beyond the Death Match: How to Write Haiku ... Really,” an aesthetically and historically informed workshop on the fundamentals of reading and writing traditional haiku in English. Then, at 2:30, stay for “Let’s Change the Subject,” a workshop that explores reading and crafting longer free verse poems through the lens of haiku awareness.

About the Poet

A poet hailed for her masterful craftsmanship," "brilliant imagery," and "uniquely musical voice," seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee Jennifer Hambrick is the author of a silence or two (Red Moon Press), winner of a 2025 Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America; the free verse poetry collection In the High Weeds (NFSPS Press), winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies; the haibun collection Joyride (Red Moon Press), winner of the Marianne Bluger Book Award from Haiku Canada; and Unscathed (NightBallet Press). Her poetry appears in Rattle, The Columbia Review, Santa Clara Review, Hong Kong Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, San Pedro River Review, Maryland Literary Review, Southeast Review, all of the English-language haikai journals, and in many other journals and invited anthologies.

Hambrick's critical essay on English translations of Japanese avant-garde haiku received the 2024 Best of Issue award from the peer-reviewed journal Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku, and her haibun criticism is published in Contemporary Haibun Online. A frequent recipient of poetry commissions for interdisciplinary collaborations, Hambrick has also received awards from the Ohio Poetry Association and Sheila-Na-Gig Online, and first place honors in the Haibun Award Competition of the Haiku Society of America, the Martin Lucas Haiku Award Competition (U.K.), the Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards, and others. Jennifer Hambrick is a classical musician, public radio broadcaster, multimedia producer, and cultural journalist in Columbus. Learn more at jenniferhambrick.com.

Workshop location details

Northwood-High Building
2231 North High St. Room 100
Columbus, OH 43201

In-person attendance is limited to 40. This event is open to the public.

Registration closes on Friday, April 10, 2025, at 5 p.m. EDT.

Donations to OPA are welcome and support OPA's mission of promoting and supporting Ohio poets and poetry.

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