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John O'Connor: NATURAL CONSEQUENCES (An Evening of Haiku at The Book Stall)
The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) welcomes longtime New Trier educator and poet John S. O’Connor on Tuesday, November 19th at 6:30 PM. He will be reading from and signing copies of his new collection of haiku, Natural Consequences. John will be joined by some of his students, who will also read from their work.
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More About the Book: O’ Connor says, “Haiku have come to mean more to me than ever before. The focus on living in the moment is a healing practice: taking stock of all that we’ve lost and all that we’ve been given.”
He adds, “As a haiku poet, I care most about lived experiences. All of the haiku I write grow out of actual, present-tense moments I have personally experienced — even though sometimes the present moment recalls or intersects with a particular memory. For this reason, I don’t think I create haiku, I find them in my daily life, if I’m open to the possibility of discovery of the world around me, including the rarest insights of all for me: self-discovery. In every sense, haiku help me find myself in the world.”
More About the Author: Prize-winning writer John S. O’Connor currently teaches at New Trier High School, a public school outside of Chicago. He also taught at Penn State and Northwestern. He holds degrees from The University of Chicago as well as a PhD in English from University of Illinois Chicago. O’Connor’s has written two books on the teaching of writing, Wordplaygrounds and This Time It’s Personal; a chapbook of poems called Rooting; and the forthcoming full-length collection, Streets and San.
He has been writing haiku for the past 25 years or so. Individual haiku have won awards and appeared in the Red Moon Anthology several times. O’Connor has written two previous collections of haiku, both with Deep North Press: Room Full of Chairs and Things Being What They Are.
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