Haiku poetry workshop

A haiku poetry workshop will be held on September 13 at Beaconsfield Carriage House in Charlottetown from 10 am–4 pm. Admission is free and snacks will be provided. Bring a brown bag lunch. Poets and readers at all levels are welcome (ages 16+). 

There will be writing prompts for those who wish to try composing haiku and an opportunity to workshop haiku anonymously if you have a poem prepared. The final presentations will touch on short form poetry related to haiku: haibun and renga. 

Instructors are members of Haiku Canada—Blanca Baquero (NS), Angela Leuck (QC), Carole Martignacco (NB), Mike Montreuil (ON), and Claudia Coutu Radmore (ON). 

Blanca Baquero’s poetry and short stories have been published in Canada and in the United States. Her first book of haiku is Aussi loin que le vent (Les Éditions David, 2022). Baquero is co-editor of Porch to Porch: A Maritime Haiku Anthology, a member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, League of Canadian Poets, Haiku Canada, and Haiku Society of America.

President of Haiku Canada, Angela Leuck has edited numerous haiku anthologies and published five of her own collections. She is founder of the Black Tea Haiku Group in Montreal, co-founder of the Quebec Writers’ Federation and Tanka Canada. Her work has been published internationally. Last Summer Pear (Yarrow Press, 2021) is her most recent book of haiku. Leuck is the publisher of Shoreline Press.

Carole Martignacco’s works include the origin myth, The Everything Seed, and a haiku collection entitled Teasing the Tides (Yarrow Press, 2023). She founded the Fundy Bay Writers at Sunbury Shores Art & Nature Centre in New Brunswick and is co-editor of Porch to Porch: A Maritime Haiku Anthology.Her book of tanka, Inside the Bardo (Yarrow Press, 2025), has just been released.

Mike Montreuil’s haiku, tanka, and haibun have been published widely. He has served as haibun editor for A Hundred Gourds, co-editor of Cirrus: tankas de nos jours, and now edits Haiku Canada Review. Two of his anthologies of haibun were shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards. Montreuil is the publisher of Éditions des petits nuages. His latest release is But I Digress…Covid Lockdown Haibun and Tanka Prose (Catkin Press, 2022).

Claudia Coutu Radmore’s work has been published internationally, winning numerous honours. Past President of Haiku Canada, Radmore was editor of the Haiku Canada Anthology and the co-editor of Haiku Canada’s 40th year and 45th year anniversary anthologies. She has served on the editorial boards of The Bywords Journal and ARC Poetry Magazine. Her most recent books are Sweet Vinegars: Wildflower poems (Shoreline Press, 2024) and the heron still there, with Grant D. Savage, 500 tan renga poems linked (Éditions des petits nuages, 2024).

Register for the haiku poetry workshop by email to haikufox@gmail.com or show up at the Carriage House on September 13. This event is sponsored by Haiku Canada.