Speaker: Dan Dana
Subject: Writing Your Memoir? – Consider Poetry
Synopsis: As we age, many of us think about recording details of our lives for posterity. Dan is writing his memoir in the form of haiku quintets, hoping that bite-size chunks may be more digestible by his grandchildren and any further descendants.
This session involved four elements:
1) Our natural desire to leave a legacy as a hedge against mortality,
2) a sampling of Dan’s life-snippets (“true stories in 85 syllables”) from his earliest memories through key passages and notable experiences in his life,
3) alternative poetic and non-poetic formats,
4) open discussion. For inspiration, read https://dandana.us/poems/H228_iforgottoask.pdf
