Deborah P. Kolodji and Mariko Kitakubo's "Asakusa" and "Meiji Jingu "
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Deborah P Kolodji, a haiku poet from Southern California, and Mariko Kitakubo, a tanka poet from Tokyo, started writing haiku-tanka sequences during the pandemic when they were both unable to travel to poetry readings, conferences, and events. To date, they have written 20 sequences. Mariko Kitakubo has published six books of tanka including three bilingual ones, “On This Same Star,” “Cicada Forest,” and “INDIGO.” Mariko is an experienced performer who has presented her poetry on at least 234 occasions, 177 of them overseas, in 51 different cities on 5 different continents. She hopes to encourage more poetry lovers worldwide to appreciate and practice tanka. https://www.en.kitakubo.com Deborah P Kolodji is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America. Her first full-length book of haiku and senryu, "highway of sleeping towns," won a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award from the Haiku Foundation. Her recent e-chapbook, “tug of a black ho...