Tea and Tattered Pages: Adventures in Poetry
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know this is poetry." -Emily Dickinson
Program Description:
Tea and Tattered Pages is a multi-faceted program designed to bring poetry closer to the fore in our lives, and perhaps create a small community around it. Our activities include reading, writing, discussing, reciting, and trying to
live poetry.
There will be no fixed agenda for events; rather, forthcoming events will usually be decided by vote as we move through the year, and published as things are decided. You can get a sense of what sorts of activities we will be doing on the program's web page:
Tea and Tattered Pages
February Agenda
This is a continuation of the poetry writing process we started in December. Anna Eklund-Cheong will provide an introduction to classic three-line, 17-syllable Japanese haiku, and attendees will endeavor to distill the essence of the one poem they want to write into a haiku. That haiku will be used in a future session as a start point for further development of their poetic idea.
Registration opens on Sunday, 21 December.
If you have any questions, please contact literature@wice-paris.org
Instructor: Anna Eklund-Cheong
Anna has published over 130 haiku in nineteen haiku journals since 2015. she has received Honorable Mention, Golden Haiku Contest, Washington, DC (2018); Runner-up, Golden Haiku Contest, Washington, DC (2015, 2016, and 2017). Her poems have appeared in Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Blithe Spirit, Presence, Hedgerow, Acorn, Failed Haiku, cattails, and tinywords, among other publications. In October 2025, her collection Little Acorns was published.
Website: Anna Eklund-Cheong - Paris Haiku
