Surprise, Surprise. Scheduled to “teach” a Haiku Poetry Workshop at the Asian Pacific Heritage Celebration at the Foster City Library, I prepped the room by taping haiku poems by Basho, Shiki and Shosan on the walls. Imagine my jolt when I walked into the room and saw children and adults. I was expecting an adult [...]
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Haiku Writing Workshop
Posted in My Rants About Something, Poetry, Poetry and Writing, Sacramento Poetry Center, Thoughts, Musings, Things to Share, tagged Haiku Writing, Poetry on May 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Poets for Change
Posted in Elder Care, Sacramento Poetry Center, tagged Alzheimer's Association, Poet Laureate, Sacramento Poetry Center, White House on September 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My Professor and Me An exchange of cards would have made it a Hallmark moment. Instead, we had poetry between us and it came to mean more than all the shelves of Hallmark cards. I visited an old professor friend who moved from Hawaii to a care facility in Healdsburg, CA. I took a linguistic [...]
Home Canning Poem
Posted in Poetry and Writing, Sacramento Poetry Center, tagged home canning, Michgian winter, Sacramento Poetry Center on September 19, 2011 | 7 Comments »
A Michigan Winter It was my first Michigan summer. Kay and I, two mad women, Turned the kitchen into a canning factory: Pickled cucumbers, bread & butter, dill. Christmas-colored watermelon rind pickles, Peaches, pears, corn relish, rhubarb, tomatoes. Like two librarians, we filled the basement shelves Until [...]
Posted in Poetry and Writing, Sacramento Poetry Center on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
100 Thousand Poets for Change – An international poetry event in over 600 cities worldwide Sacramento events supported by the Sacramento Poetry Center September 24, 2011 1:00 to 2:30pm Old Rose Garden in Capitol Park, 15th and Capitol Hosted by Bob Stanley and Lawrence Dinkins 1:00 Mario Ellis Hill 1:10 Bob Stanley 1:20 John Allen [...]
Poets for Peace
Posted in Books & Work by Other Writers/Artists, My Books, Poetry and Writing, Politics, Sacramento Poetry Center, tagged not War, Peace, Peace Action Sacramento, Poets for Peace, Sacramento Poetry Center, The Last Train from Hiroshima on August 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Poets for Peace Each time a poet Puts pen to paper, There is a sliver of hope For Peace. I was privileged to read some of my war and peace poems at the annual Poets for Peace event for Peace Action in downtown, Sacramento last night. Here are excerpts from my readings, focusing on [...]
Welcome Poets
Posted in Poetry, Sacramento Poetry Center, tagged April Poetry Month, California Writers' Club Sacramento, Guest poets, Sacramento Poetry Center on April 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Share a Poem The echo resounds throughout cyberspace: April is National Poetry Month. April is National Poetry Month. To honor poets everywhere, I invite poets to send one of their favorites. Send your poems to fhk@francesk.org and the honor will be mine in posting them here. Go Poets!
Poetry and Art
Posted in Books & Work by Other Writers/Artists, Poetry, Sacramento Poetry Center, tagged Bakery Case, Bob Stanley Poet Laureate of Sacramento, California Writers' Club Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, Frances Kakugawa, Mosaic Moon: Caregiving Through Poetry, Poetry and Art, Poetry to Art, Sacramento Poetry Center, Teacher You Look Like a Horse, Wayne Thiebauld, Wordsworth Dances the Waltz, Wordsworth the Poet on November 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Wayne Thiebauld and Bakery Case Last night I had the honor of joining eleven poets from the Sacramento Poetry Center at the Crocker Art Museum. We were invited by Bob Stanley, Poet Laureate of Sacramento to write and read poems for six of Thiebauld’s work. My poem was on Bakery Case. Enjoy. Bakery Case A [...]
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