Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo.

Mariko Kitakubo Profile

Mariko Kitakubo

Born in Tokyo.
Living in Mitaka-city, Tokyo
Membership
Japan Writers' Association,
Japan PEN Club,
Association of Contemporary Tanka Poets,
Japan Tanka Poets' Society,
Kokoro-No-Hana,
Tan-Ku Co-Founder,
Tanka Society of America.

In commemoration of
15 years of tanka reading
The Latest Tanka Sequence
Original Tanka presented at
Spoken World Live

Contemprary Tanka Poet Mariko Kitakubo. Article details.

June 2025, the 2nd Tan-Ku collection launch event in California

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At the Poetry Meeting hosted by Kathabela Wilson at Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden.
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I held a Tan-Ku Workshop with Kathabela Wilson at a Zoom Meeting of the Southern California Haiku Study Group, led by Yvette Kolodji.
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We gathered with Deborah P Kolodji's relatives at the Graveyard and read from her Japanese-English tanka series and the second Tan-Ku collection, ETERNAL.
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I participated in the Zoom Meeting Cobalt Poets hosted by Rick Lupert and gave a reading of Tan-Ku.
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I participated in a Zoom Meeting hosted by Michael Czarnecki and gave a reading of Tan-Ku.
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I gave a reading of a new series of Japanese-English tanka sequence at Susan Dobay's studio.
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I recited from the second Tan-Ku collection, ETERNAL, at a poetry meeting held at Kathabela Wilson's house.
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I held a reading to celebrate the publication of the second Tan-Ku collection, ETERNAL, at the Japanese garden in Pasadena. It was a great honor to have such a large audience.
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I held a reading to celebrate the publication of the second Tan-Ku collection, ETERNAL, at the First Baptist Church Pasadena. I am deeply grateful to the many people in the poetry world and church members who came to the event and listened to me with tears in their eyes.

  

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