Writers in Kyoto

Category: Poetry

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.

My First Guide to Kyoto

  • By Robert MacLean
A poem from the book Waking to Snow, which tracks twenty-five years of living in Kyoto.

The Poetry of Pain and Its Meaning in the Age of COVID-19 

  • By Michael Freiling and Shelley Baker-Gard 
Review of a manuscript of poems written during August 1942 in America by Japanese-Americans being sent to camps.

Clouds of Illusion

  • By James Woodham
Striking poems and stunning photography.

Just Like This

  • By Eric Bray
Lyrics and songs and some of the Kyoto music scene.

Nervous Nun Limericks

  • By Preston Houser
Zen humor and koan to challenge the reader.

USA Prize – Sixth Annual Kyoto Writing Competition

  • By Tina deBellegarde
A wonderful poem that takes a poignant, personal, yet universal look at the effects of the pandemic.

Haiku Discoveries

  • By Sydney Solis
A wonderfully informative piece on haiku and the author's adventures.

Introducing Edward Levinson

  • By Edward Levinson
A photographer and writer who came to Japan at the end of the 1970s.

Today: Ten Tanka

  • By William Altoft
Tanka written on the Bristol harbourside.

The Wind’s Word

  • By James Woodham
Poetry and photos from Lake Biwa.

Six Love Limericks

  • By Preston Houser
Limericks liberated from form.

Sōseki’s Kyoto Haibun

  • By Richard Donovan
Commentary and translation of a work by Sōseki on Kyoto.

The Family

  • By Felicity Tillack
A poem from an anthology called Elements of Time.

The wandering Nanao Sakaki

  • By Robert Lee
An extract from a tribute to Nanao Sakaki ‘Transnational Poet Wanderer’ in Kyoto Journal, no. 78, p.127ff.

Love in the time of COVID 19

  • By Preston Houser
Villanelles on the challenges of love.

Six Zen Limericks

  • By Preston Houser
Limericks on monks!

A Single Thread

  • By James Woodham
Poetry and photographs on nature.

Western writers in/on Kyoto

  • By Ken Rodgers
Foreign writers in Japan including both historical and contemporary writers.

1980s Poems

  • By Robert Yellin
An event where Yellin reads poems of his youth.

Dream Song 73: Karesansui, Ryoan-ji

  • By John Berryman
A poem from a 1950s visit to Ryoan-ji.

A Year in Review

  • By Lisa Wilcut
A haphazard collection of unruly short verse.

Ogura haiku

  • By Mayumi Kawaharada
Fixing bamboo fences and the haiku it inspired.

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