NAGOYA, JAPAN; September 24 action!”Local poets and first-time poets, Japanese EFL students and native (and non-native) English speakers will gather for a morning ginko (haiku walk). We’ll begin at Osu Kannon temple in Nagoya, spend a two hours strolling through the neighborhood and adjacent Shopping Arcades as the market comes to life. We will proceed for a ten-minute walk to the next subway station, Kamimaezu, and hold a haiku-writing workshop at Mondo Books. There will be a reading of everyone’s poems and a vote for audience favorites. We hope to post live footage of the workshop and reading via an on-site webcam. A mix of cultures and languages, poetry and a celebration of whatever the haiku genre means to all of us.”