Seasons In Haiku

By Kathryn Takara

With Seasons in Haiku, Takara beckons us once again to follow her down a pathway of purposeful communication cleared by poetic power. Only this time, she widens her focus beyond human interconnectivity to include human kinship with the four seasons of the natural world. For this 10th publication, she presents, for the first time, her selected ha

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pacific Raven Press, LLC
• Release date: May 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781736728703

Kathryn Takara

Kathryn Waddell Takara, PhD, is the author of 9 books.Owner, co-Editor, Publisher ofPacific Raven Press, LLC (18 titles)Service: My service to the community is healing through art,writing, poetry, editing books, and publications. Since Covid, my press, Pacific Raven Press, LLC,has published: Red Dreams Volcano Visions by Kathryn Takara, which includes Hawaiianmythology and a glossary; Close Caskets by Dante Clark, a California poet; Our Spirits Carry OurVoices (a collection of poems by West African and California poets); and A Silhouette in Time byLily Wu. Two more books are forthcoming before the end of 2021, Sisters Across Oceans (acollection of poems by Hawaii and Ghanaian women) and a collection, Haiku in SeasonsAwards: The History Makers, Black Futures Award, Life-Time Achievement (NAACP) award,Knighted in the Orthodox Order of St. John. Recent activities: I was interviewed internationallyand internationally on my research on blacks in Hawaii, gave ZOOM lectures, several podcasts,co-produced a jazz night in Honolulu, gave presentation at the UN/NGO, performed in severallocal and national poetry readings on line and recently in San Francisco; and in 2020 curated apublic library Black History month featuring local Black artists and a virtual walking tour at theHawaii Museum of Art, consulted on film on Martin Luther King, Jr. in Hawaii (1959) and hisinfluence in the islands. Personal. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, and a Hawaii resident since1968. Retired Professor of Black Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a FrenchInstructor. Writer, editor, publisher, public scholar.

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