Writers in Kyoto

Category: Poetry

Five Autumn Tanka

  • By Lea Millay
From Lea Millay, poems inspired by an October visit to Kyoto.

SPA-WORLD OSAKA

  • By Nathan Mader
From Nathan Mader, poetry in the world of a super sento.

Five Elements 45 Years 

  • By Edward Levinson
Edward Levinson offers odes to the elements and planet.

Poems by Nathan Mader

  • By Nathan Mader
Three evocative poems from a Canadian poet

Visual Art and Poetry by Pamela Asai

  • By Pamela Asai
Haiku-inspired verse and visual works by an Australian in Arashiyama.

Nathan Mader Launches Poetry Collection, “The Endless Animal”

  • By Kirsty Kawano
Report on an event held in Kyoto

USA Prize – John Savoie (Ninth Annual Kyoto Writing Competition)

  • By Karen Lee Tawarayama
A series of seasonal haiku verses

Book Review: A Tiny Nature: Recollections of Poems and Trees, by Robert Weis

  • By Rebecca Otowa
Review of a collection of free verse poetry and photographs mainly of bonsai trees.

The Way The Wind

  • By James Woodham
A striking combination of poems and photography.

Three Kyoto Photo Haiku

  • By John Dougill
Three Kyoto haiku with photos.

Five Cooling Tanka

  • By WiK Admin
Respite from the summer heat is offered.

Words and Music: Reflections

  • By WiK Admin
Writing and reflections on listening and life.

Prayer –From tears to smiles—

  • By Mayumi Kawaharada
Haiku and photos through the seasons.

Shinrin yoku poetry

  • By John Dougill
A selection of poems on forest bathing.

Geisha limericks

  • By WiK Admin
Geisha and maiko poetry.

Spider Walks the Air

  • By James Woodham
Beautiful photos and poems on Lake Biwa.

Three Poems

  • By WiK Admin
An excerpt from the poetry book Rêves d’un mangeur de kakis.

The dharma of natural laws

  • By WiK Admin
A poem on Zen sermons.

Seventh Writing Competition Results: Australia Prize

  • By Karen Lee Tawarayama
A poem on a rickshaw puller's day in western Kyoto.

Jazz and The Spoken Word

  • By Ted Taylor
Poems read at a music and poetry event with Joshua Breakstone.

Seventh Writing Competition Results: Honorable Mentions

  • By Karen Lee Tawarayama
A poem on kintsugi.

Excerpts from Grace Notes

  • By Ken Rodgers
A variety of written and visual works from the author.

Seventh Writing Competition Results: Honorable Mentions

  • By Karen Lee Tawarayama
A rendition of a diary entry featuring a cat.

Book Review: Wintermoon, by Robert Maclean

  • By John Dougill
An analytical review of a book of 119 haiku.

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