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Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, April 2022
An April 2022 gathering discusses poems prompted by music, the memory of a friend and a grandchild’s first independent train journey.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, March 2022
A March 2022 gathering links seasonal blossoms with personal remembrance and considers how conversational language can work within tanka.
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The Elusive Imperial Refuge
A family-history essay recalls the author’s father and his wartime industrial work, including a family account of a proposed imperial refuge whose details the essay itself says can no longer be verified.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Winter, February 2022
A February 2022 gathering considers the seasonal transition from snow to rain, energetic older people and the preservation of memories of the Showa era.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Winter, January 2022
A January 2022 gathering brings together New Year poems, reunion and hometown memories, with discussion of sound and expression in verse.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Autumn, November 2021
A November 2021 gathering considers newly prominent words and the value of fresh phrasing in poems drawn from everyday observation.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Autumn, October 2021
An October 2021 gathering connects autumn reading with poetry composition and memories of school reunions during the pandemic.
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The Salome Within
An essay revisits Oscar Wilde’s Salome at different stages of the writer’s life and relates its questions of ancestry and inner conflict to the author’s own fiction.
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For Kawachi Is Our Homeland
A brief introduction links to a Japanese biographical work about Seishu Hamano, associated with his origins in Sakai.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, July 2021
A July 2021 gathering reflects on language shaped by the pandemic and discusses poems about bereavement, travel and masked commuters.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, June 2021
A June 2021 gathering reflects on words for the rainy season and discusses tanka in relation to everyday experience and memories of war and peace.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, April 2021
An April 2021 gathering considers the many Japanese names for spring rain and poems shaped by weather, observation and renewed attendance during the pandemic.