Join Solid State Books & Free DC for a

Resistance Haiku Workshop 

To be held at Solid State Books on 14 St. NW

Tickets available here!

Solid State Books in cooperation with Free DC is hosting a Resistance Haiku workshop led by award-winning haiku poet Abigail Friedman.

This workshop will be an opportunity for participants at all levels to try their hand at writing haiku that capture their political sentiments.

Although many people think of haiku as "about nature," it is really about life and the world as we experience it. There is a long tradition - in Japan as well as around the world - of writing haiku inspired by one's political experience.

Learn about different ways in which poets have expressed political resistance through haiku, then try writing your own guided by an experienced haiku practitioner.

About the poet 

Abigail Friedman began composing haiku while living in Japan, where she was the only non-Japanese member of a haiku group that met at the foot of Mt. Fuji. She is the author of four haiku-related books: The Haiku Apprentice: Memoirs of Writing Poetry in Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 2006); I Wait for the Moon: 100 Haiku of Momoko Kuroda (Stone Bridge Press, 2014); Street Chatter Fading (Larkspur Press, 2015); and The Azaleas are Silent (Haiku Nature Press, 2025). Her haiku and essays on haiku have appeared in numerous anthologies and international publications. She currently leads the Japan-America Society Haiku Group of Washington, D.C., and has been a judge since 2014 for the popular Golden Triangle BID haiku contest.