English Language Learners make tremendous Guerilla Haikuists!
A group of courageous design students, all english language learners at the New School this summer, joined me in a morning of haiku adventures all about the Union Square/Washington Square neighborhood. As I informed them of their mission, to approach New Yorkers on the street and get them to write haiku with them, the faces of this international crowd- from Asia, to the Carribbean, to the Middle East, to Europe, collectively blanched. “Using english, to get strangers to write with us?!?” they were thinking…”how is THIS going to work.” Two hours later they...
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Wave sounds overhead - But it isn’t the ocean - the Tides of Transit On a bright and shining Saturday in Fort Greene Park we assembled- a crew of chalk revelers, most of whom had ne’er chalked before. We caught on quick. Between the farmer’s market, the touch football game, and the kids on wheeled objects, we were kept very busy. Then we divided into our GHM record 6 Neighborhood teams; Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Williamsburg. Each neighborhood has their own set of remarkable images available in our Flickr gallery for your...
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The Haiku Mistress
Actor and educator, Caley Vickerman, discovered haiku in 6th grade and they remain to this day a favorite method of expression; simple, precise and immeasurably powerful. It became her fervent wish to create events that celebrated haiku (and humanity). Thus the Guerilla Haiku Movement was born! …And the Haiku Mistress gratefully continues to celebrate! 
We are the Guerilla Haiku Movement; a cadre of artists, fun-lovers, and fools that use sidewalk chalk and the ancient Japanese poetic tradition of Haiku to tell our stories and the stories of our communities inside of one moment. Check out our events page to join us in a city near you!