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Romantic Poetry Forum: Summer, June 2022
A June 2022 gathering reflects on returning crowds, an absent friend’s garden and the effect of spacing and pauses in a poem.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, May 2022
A May 2022 gathering finds poetic subjects in birds, fruit and fallen petals, with discussion of natural expression and closely observed detail.
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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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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.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Spring, March 2021
A March 2021 account brings together a poetry gathering, cherry-blossom viewing and a walk through local historical sites, with photographs of the outing.
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Romantic Poetry Forum: Winter, February 2021
A February 2021 gathering explores the movement toward spring through poems about family, a grandchild’s calligraphy and memories of daily walks with a dog.
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Miura Tanka Society: January 2021
An account of a January 2021 gathering introduces the Miura Tanka Society and discusses poems of the New Year, family and daily life during the pandemic.