Prof. David McCann of Harvard Univ. (emeritus) will present a workshop on Sijo, the Korean vernacular counterpart to the Japanese haiku. David has translated and published a large number of sijo, both Classical as well as contemporary, and for several years at Harvard taught the course Writing Asian Poetry where students wrote poems following models in Classical Chinese, the Japanese haiku, and the sijo. His own book of sijo poems, Urban Temple, was translated into Korean and published in Korea. The sijo is a really interesting verse form, with strong performance aspects, much like today’s K-pop. Its three lines can also be seen as a good example for analysis and essay writing, as it unfolds with an Introducti0on in the first line, Development in the second, and then a rhetorical Turn to start the third line, and the Conclusion.

A Basic Guide to Writing Sijo: https://www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/current/resources/sijo_guide.php