Join us on Thursday, August, 20th, 2026 at 7 PM Eastern Time for a workshop with poet Aaron Caycedo-Kimura! This workshop is held in partnership with Strathmore.
In this workshop, we will examine the Japanese haiga as a form of graphic literature, emphasizing the fundamental principle of text and graphics interdependence. We will spend time looking at examples, refreshing our understanding of the haiku, and ending with an exercise to help you create a contemporary cartoon haiga of your own. No drawing experience necessary.
View a collection of Aaron’s haiga, recently published in Twin Bird Review.
List of materials: pencil, eraser, fine or medium point marker (black), drawing paper or copy paper.
This workshop will be recorded and a link to the recorded version is available for registered participants only. The recorded version is edited for participant privacy and focuses on the instructor’s lessons. Our partners at Strathmore want these workshops to be as accessible as possible, so they are priced as “pay what you can.” You will be prompted to enter an amount of your choice when you register. (If you are registering for free, please enter $0.) If you are able to pay for these workshops, every dollar goes to support Strathmore’s education programs.
NOTE: This is a fully online event. When you register, your ticket email from tickets@strathmore.org will include a seat number but remember that this is a virtual-only experience. The workshop takes place on Zoom, and you’ll receive the access link via email from strathmore@strathmore.org at approximately 4 PM Eastern Time on the day of the event. Click to view samples of the ticket email and the zoom link email for Strathmore events.
About the Facilitator
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a writer, visual artist, and educator. He is the author of two poetry books: the full-length collection Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022) and Ubasute, winner of the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. He is also the author and illustrator of the nonfiction book Text, Don’t Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life (TarcherPerigee, 2017). His honors include a MacDowell Stanford Calderwood Fellowship, a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Fellowship Award, and a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous anthologies and journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, The Cincinnati Review, Consequence, Shenandoah, Gordon Square Review, Cave Wall, and elsewhere. Caycedo-Kimura earned his MFA from Boston University and teaches creative writing at Trinity College and University of Hartford.
