# Write Your Own Haiku for Kids: Write Poetry in the Japanese Tradition - Easy Step-By-Step Instructions to Compose Simple Poems - Hardcover

by **Patricia Donegan** (Author)

**\*Winner _Armed with the Arts Inc. Creative Book Award_**\*

In this fun Japanese children's book, kids will learn to create haiku--elegant and simplistic Japanese poems.

Haiku is a uniquely Japanese form of poetry that uses vivid words and imagery to capture a feeling or a moment in just three lines. Short but powerful, haiku poems are easy and fun to write and share with your friends. Haiku has become increasingly popular in school curriculums around the world, particularly among teachers introducing students to the art of poetry, as well as Asian history and heritage. The activities in this haiku-for-kids book will show you how to create original haiku and help you to think up meaningful words and images with which you can write beautiful poetry.

**_Write Your Own Haiku For Kids_ introduces four styles of haiku to readers with clear explanations and numerous examples. This book includes chapters on:**

-   Your first haiku--how to get started writing this classic form of poetry
-   Haiku about Nature--a traditional element in haiku
-   _Haibun_\--Haiku with a short story
-   _Haiga_\--Haiku with a drawing
-   _Renga_\--Haiku that you write together with friends

  
The study and creation of haiku is a great way to have fun with both writing and reading poetry while exploring remarkable aspects of Japanese culture.

### Author Biography

**Patricia Donegan** served on the faculty of East-West poetics at Naropa University under Allen Ginsberg and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, was a student of haiku master Seishi Yamaguchi, and a Fulbright scholar to Japan. She is a meditation teacher, previous poetry editor for _Kyoto Journal_, and a longtime member of the Haiku Society of America. Her haiku works include _Love Haiku: Japanese Poems of Yearning, Passion & Remembrance_ (cotranslated with Yoshie Ishibashi), _Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart, Haiku: Asian Arts for Creative Kids_, and _Chiyo-ni Woman Haiku Master_ (cotranslated with Yoshie Ishibashi). Her poetry collections include: _Hot Haiku, Bone Poems, Without Warning, Heralding the Milk Light_, and haiku selections in various anthologies.

She won first prize in the 1998 Mainichi International Haiku Contest and won a Merit Book Award for translation from the Haiku Society of America for her book on Chiyo-ni, also in 1998. Her books on haiku have combined scholarship and insight in reaching young and old to inspire and sustain a lifelong interesting in haiku poetry, in both Japanese and English.

**Number of Pages:** 48

**Dimensions:** 0.5 x 10.2 x 7.6 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** April 03, 2018

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