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Robert Witmer [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Tokyo
Japan
JP
Email: 
robertwitmer24@gmail.com
Bio: 

Robert Witmer has resided in Japan for the past 45 years. Now an emeritus professor, he has had the opportunity to teach courses in poetry and creative writing not only at his home university in Tokyo but also in India. His poems and prose poetry have appeared in many print and online journals and books. His first book of poetry, a collection of haiku titled Finding a Way, was published in 2016. A second book of poetry, titled Serendipity, was published earlier this year (2023).

Favorite authors: 
William Shakespeare, John Keats, Wallace Stevens, Charles Simic, Cormac McCarthy, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Li Po, Henry Miller
Born in: 
Williamsport, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Valparaiso, IN
Indiana
Prizes won: 

Museum of Haiku Literature Award,

Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards (3 times),

British Haiku Society Tanka Competition,

Haiku Poets of Northern California Tanka Contest 2021,

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry (two times)

What I'm reading now: 
Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico

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