SWET Kansai Presents: Three poets in Japan (Kyoto)
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The Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators (Kansai) presents:
Three Poets in Japan
Time: Sunday 17th May 2009 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Place: Venture Dream Office 2nd Floor Meeting Room (2 minutes from Hankyu Karasuma Station and Shijo Subway Station)
Fee: 500 yen for members and 1,000 yen for non-members
Reservations can be made through e-mail.
Yoko Danno, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, and Keiji Minato will discuss writing in both English and Japanese, translating and publishing poetry, and will also read their poetry.
Yoko will talk about why she started writing poetry in English more than forty years ago, and how she became interested in the roots and beginnings of Japanese culture and literature, especially the customs, imagery, thoughts and feelings of the folklore recorded in the Fudoki and the Kojiki compiled in the 8th century. Yoko will read some of her poems and translations.
Jane will discuss some of the influences on her writing, which include the work of other poets, philosophers, visual artists, as well as pop culture and current events, and some of the techniques (especially “cinematic” ones) she uses for constructing poems. She will also touch on her experiences teaching poetry in Japan and writing for publication. Jane will read and/or distribute some of her poems.
While Keiji nurtures an interest in both conventional and non-conventional poetry, he thinks that his relationship with foreign cultures and languages has brought him back to traditional forms such as haiku, senryu, and tanka. Keiji will talk about his recent experience of co-editing a haiku issue of Australia-based e-zine Cordite. How do non-Japanese and Japanese writers respond to haiku in global cyber space? Keiji will share some of his poems and translations.
See the URL below for additional details:
http://www.swet.jp/index.php/events/
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