The Stone Woman Speaks: Poetry as a Spiritual Practice: Aug 8
August 8th, from 9 to noon and 2 to 5pm at the Toledo Zen Center
Bring your journal and a pen, and prepare to encounter the ‘Live Words’ that are the heart of zen poetry! This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in poetry and will be lead by Dr. Larry Smith, a professor emeritus and author of ‘Songs of the Woodcutter: Zen Poems of Wang Wei and Taigu Ryokan.
Fee: $50.00
To register for this event, please send an email to: info@ToledoZen.org with the event title and your contact information.
Larry Smith is a professor emeritus of English and Humanities at BGSU Firelands College in Huron, Ohio. He has written on Zen Buddhism and Taigu Ryokan in Parabola Magazine, Shambhala Sun, and The Utne Reader. He is a critic and a writer with seven books of poetry, two books of fiction, three literary biographies, and two filmscripts on Ohio poets James Wright & Kenneth Patchen.
Smith and Mei Hui Huang met at Firelands College before her return to Taiwan. Their popular Chinese Zen Poems: What Hold Has This Mountain appeared from Bottom Dog Press in 1996.
