Writers in Kyoto

Category: Poetry

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

  • By John Savoie

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 Kit Nagamura
Three Kyoto haiku with photos.

Five Cooling Tanka

  • By Lea Millay
Respite from the summer heat is offered.

Words and Music: Reflections

  • By Ken Rodgers
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 Milena Guziak
A selection of poems on forest bathing.

Geisha limericks

  • By Peter MacIntosh
Geisha and maiko poetry.

Spider Walks the Air

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

Three Poems

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

The dharma of natural laws

  • By Preston Keido Houser
A poem on Zen sermons.

Seventh Writing Competition Results: Australia Prize

  • By Simon Rowe
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 Annette* Akkerman
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 Stephen Benfey
A rendition of a diary entry featuring a cat.

Book Review: Wintermoon, by Robert Maclean

  • By Mark Richardson
An analytical review of a book of 119 haiku.

Vagabond Song

  • By James Woodham
Striking poems and stunning photography.

They Will Bloom When You Die

  • By Douglas Anthony Cooper
A poem for Ukraine.

Three Poems

  • By Andrew Ashleigh Kozelka
Three poems on what the author labels as his "Japan obsession."

A.J. Pomez

  • By AJ Dickinson
Introduction and links to three books by AJ Dickinson.

Winter Wonderings of Body and Mind

  • By Edward Levinson (aka Edo 恵道)
It's cold out there. More whimsical and wise poetry from Ed.

Grace Notes

  • By Ken Rodgers
Poetry in and on memorable places in Kyoto.

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