Author: Juan Perez Sr

HOUSE OF THE FIGHTING CHUPACABRAS PRESENTS
A Basic Poetry Workshop Workbook Series No. 2
To ku or not to ku
Some Wild Ideas
On Writing The
Modern American Haiku
JUAN MANUEL PÉREZ
2nd Edition

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Series Introduction: p. 3
The Ufoku p. 4
The Horrorku p. 8
The Zombiku p. 12
The Vampiku p. 16
The Chupaku p. 20

An Introduction To The Basic
Poetry Workshop Workbook Series
This series of poetry workshop workbooks were inspired and developed mainly from poetry writing programs I have conducted with the following main groups: The San Antonio Poets Association, The Alamo Area Poets of Texas, The San Antonio Writers Guild, and The San Angelo Writers Club, plus my numerous reading presentations in, out, and around the great state of Texas.
Now I present them to you, the novice and the master poet alike.
These simple poems and poetry activities are designed to help spark your own ideas on writing just in case you are in a fix or you have simply ran out of poetic magic (it happens to the very best of us).
I hope this workbook proves useful to you and I wish you the best of luck in your poetry writing… and reading.
Juan Manuel Pérez
Corpus Christi, Texas

THE UFOKU
Before answering your first question of “what the hell is a Ufoku?” [which may or may not be an obvious question; yeah I know it sounds like a curse word, but I promise it ain’t] let’s start with: What the hell is a “haiku”?