Poetry and the I Ching: with Denise Weaver Ross and Jules Nyquist April 18, 2026

$95.00

Saturday, April 18, 2026

10 am - 4 pm

Jules’ Poetry Playhouse- Placitas, NM

with Denise Weaver Ross and Jules Nyquist

Join artist and poet Denise Weaver Ross as she celebrates the completion of her years-long I Ching Hexagram series with the release of 64 Hexagrams & Haiku, a book featuring all 64 paintings accompanied by an illustrated card deck. Each artwork draws from the ancient Chinese I Ching, a 2,000-year-old divination system where each hexagram—six stacked lines, yin or yang—reveals a key facet of life's unfolding patterns. 

In this hands-on class, Denise will guide you through casting an I Ching readin using coins, then Denise and Jules will invite you to use the book and card deck as creative prompts for your own writing. Whether you compose haiku, free verse, or other poetic forms, you’ll explore how image, chance, and language combine to spark insight and imagination.

Saturday, April 18, 2026

10 am - 4 pm

Jules’ Poetry Playhouse- Placitas, NM

with Denise Weaver Ross and Jules Nyquist

Join artist and poet Denise Weaver Ross as she celebrates the completion of her years-long I Ching Hexagram series with the release of 64 Hexagrams & Haiku, a book featuring all 64 paintings accompanied by an illustrated card deck. Each artwork draws from the ancient Chinese I Ching, a 2,000-year-old divination system where each hexagram—six stacked lines, yin or yang—reveals a key facet of life's unfolding patterns. 

In this hands-on class, Denise will guide you through casting an I Ching readin using coins, then Denise and Jules will invite you to use the book and card deck as creative prompts for your own writing. Whether you compose haiku, free verse, or other poetic forms, you’ll explore how image, chance, and language combine to spark insight and imagination.

More on Denise’s I Ching series here

Denise Weaver Ross is an accomplished poet and visual artist whose work fuses image, myth, and language. She is the author of several books blending poetry and art, including Midwest by Northeast by Southwest and the four-volume House of Cards series, later collected as House of Cards: The Whole Deck. Her first stand-alone poetry collection, Letters to the Deceased & Other Missives, showcases her lyrical style apart from images. Her poetry has also appeared in national and international anthologies and journals such as Oddball Magazine.

Her latest project, 64 Hexagrams & Haiku, pairs her series of paintings inspired by the I Ching with companion haikus written under the tutelage of haiku master Scott Wiggerman, and is available both as a book and a card deck that together form a tool for creative and spiritual exploration.

FEATURED IMAGE: Hexagram 2: Love is a Planetary Force

The feminine force of mother earth encouraging us to be receptive and live at one with the earth. This artwork is from the series by Denise Weaver Ross based on the 64 hexagrams (containing a combination of six yin or yang lines) from the I Ching, the 2000-year-old Chinese divination system.

Class limit 10 students.

Doors open 9:30 am. Class runs 10 am - 4 pm.

Working hour lunch break on site. Bring your own lunch if desired. Plentiful snacks and beverages provided (coffee, tea, water, bagels and fruit in morning, afternoon snacks). Ample time to explore the grounds of Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and walk the labyrinth.

Bring writing materials, free wi-fi if needed.

Co-facilitated by Jules Nyquist. Hosted by Jules Nyquist and John Roche.

Author books will be for sale, along with Poetry Playhouse Publications books and art.

Directions and contact info sent with registration. Jules’ Poetry Playhouse is at 11 Homestead Lane, Placitas, NM.