Sudden Sight: A Haiku Workshop (A Boulder Arts Week Event)

Haiku is a poetic form and practice rooted in meditative experience. In this workshop we will discuss basic principles of haiku composition, read a few as models, sit in meditation to settle in, and make haiku-like poems together. No experience necessary. First thought, best thought.
Reed Bye is a writer and poet and dharma practitioner. He is Professor Emeritus at Naropa University where he served on the core faculty of the Jack Kerouac School for many years, teaching poetry writing workshops and courses in classic and contemporary literature and contemplative poetics. He has been a member of the Boulder Shambhala and Buddhist community since the 1980’s.
Gary Allen has taught meditation programs in the United States, Canada, and in South Korea. He is the Co-Executive Director of the Mindfulness Peace Project and has authored secular mindfulness books for inmates (Discovering Sanity) and for veterans (Warrior’s Heart). He has two degrees in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, and has published five books of poetry, most recently Transmigration Suite from Antarabhava Press. He’s been working for the past 20 years on a four-volume book on Indian tantric master Tilopa and the origination and practice of Vajrayana.
Cost: Free/Donations gratefully accepted
You may visit the Boulder Arts Week website for information about this and other local events offered by the Boulder arts community during the week of April 3-12, 2026.