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
March Agenda
This is the third of four sessions aimed at producing the one poem everyone might have inside themselves that has been longing to get written.
In February Anna Eklund-Cheong provided an introduction to classic three-line, 17-syllable Japanese haiku, and attendees endeavored to distill the essence of their poem into a haiku.
In this session, Heather Hartley will lead the class into using that haiku as a start point for further development of the poetic idea.
Registration opens on Sunday, 15 February.
If you have any questions, please contact literature@wice-paris.org
Instructors:
Heather Hartley
Heather Hartley’s poetry collections include Adult Swim and Knock Knock, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She was Paris Editor for Tin House magazine for over fifteen years.
Her short fiction, poems, essays and interviews have appeared in or on PBS Newshour, The Guardian, The Literary Review and other venues. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent’s (UK) Paris School of Arts and Culture and has also taught at the American University of Paris and the University of Texas El Paso MFA program.
www.heatherhartleyink.com
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
