Please join us on Saturday, February 5th from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm PT for an online poetry workshop with poet, writer, and Zen teacher Norman Fischer. He will be reading and talking about some of the poems in the book “Selected Poems of Norman Fischer” that is just out. The book can be found at www.chax.org

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Norman Fischer has been publishing poetry since 1979. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a masters from the Graduate Theological Union at the University of California at Berkeley. Norman has been a Zen Buddhist priest for nearly 30 years, serving as abbot for the San Francisco Zen Center from 1995-2000. Founder and teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation, he is one of the most highly respected Zen teachers in America, regularly leading Zen Buddhist retreats and events.

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