Zen and Poetry Writing Retreat
With Paula Jones
** At Jikoji & On Zoom **
Thursday, June 23, 2022 – Sunday, June 26, 2022
OUR PROGRAM
Here's our full schedule, subject to minor changes. All times are PST.
THURSDAY
evening session
6:00 pm to 8 pm PST
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
morning session
9:30 am to noon PST
afternoon session
1:30 pm to 4:00 pm PST
A long weekend devoted to the Art of Poetry:
In-class prompts, writing and discussion of poems,
Sitting and wandering open to “Just this.”
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Online participants will be sent a link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event.
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REGISTRATION & FEES
Online participants will be sent a link to the Zoom meeting upon Registration.
Registration and Fees
The event is offered on a donation basis, with a suggested donation of $50 - $100 per day. Donations may be made through our Donate page, also linked at upper right.
Overnight accommodations are optional. We have limited private rooms, and dormitory-style space is currently available as is camping. Please register using the button below and indicate your preference of lodging type and whether or not you are comfortable being housed in a dorm-style room.
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ABOUT PAULA
Paula Jones first became a student of Jikoji founder and teacher, Kobun Chino, when she attended the Santa Cruz Zendo in the mid-seventies. She and her young daughter soon moved into the residence with a changing group of caretakers and good friends, one of whom she later married. During that time she attended short sesshins at the Zendo as weeklong sessions at sponsored by the Santa Cruz Zendo and Haiku Zendo sesshins at Hidden Valley with Kobun’s students from Los Altos. This was where she first met Angie Boissevain. After finishing an MA in Creative Writing, she began teaching literature and writing classes, all of which included creative writing, part-time and full-time at Community Colleges. She began in Santa Cruz, moved to the Eastern Sierras and then to San Diego, where she taught private poetry workshops and workshops for organizations and schools. Her last teaching position was as an adjunct professor of English composition and literature classes. Poetry and poetry writing was included in all of her classes.
Paula was ordained and given transmission by the poet and teacher, Angie Boissevain, and is now one of the teachers at Floating Zendo San Jose and a Guiding Teacher at Jikoji who feels lucky to lead a monthly sharing of poems: Poetry and Zen.
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