Category: Poetry

Visual Art and Poetry by Pamela Asai

Haiku-inspired verse and visual works by an Australian in Arashiyama.

Nathan Mader Launches Poetry Collection, “The Endless Animal”

Report on an event held in Kyoto

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

A series of seasonal haiku verses

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

Review of a collection of free verse poetry and photographs mainly of bonsai trees.

The Way The Wind

A striking combination of poems and photography.

Three Kyoto Photo Haiku

Three Kyoto haiku with photos.

Five Cooling Tanka

Respite from the summer heat is offered.

Words and Music: Reflections

Writing and reflections on listening and life.

Prayer –From tears to smiles—

Haiku and photos through the seasons.

Shinrin yoku poetry

A selection of poems on forest bathing.

Geisha limericks

Geisha and maiko poetry.

Spider Walks the Air

Beautiful photos and poems on Lake Biwa.

Three Poems

An excerpt from the poetry book Rêves d’un mangeur de kakis.

The dharma of natural laws

A poem on Zen sermons.

Seventh Writing Competition Results: Australia Prize

A poem on a rickshaw puller's day in western Kyoto.

Jazz and The Spoken Word

Poems read at a music and poetry event with Joshua Breakstone.

Seventh Writing Competition Results: Honorable Mentions

A poem on kintsugi.

Excerpts from Grace Notes

A variety of written and visual works from the author.

Seventh Writing Competition Results: Honorable Mentions

A rendition of a diary entry featuring a cat.

Book Review: Wintermoon, by Robert Maclean

An analytical review of a book of 119 haiku.

Vagabond Song

Striking poems and stunning photography.

They Will Bloom When You Die

A poem for Ukraine.

Three Poems

Three poems on what the author labels as his "Japan obsession."

A.J. Pomez

Introduction and links to three books by AJ Dickinson.