James Won

James Won Treasurer 6233 Golden West Avenue Temple City, CA 91780 USA jameswon@charter.net James Won has been writing tanka off and on since 2011, and has been a member of the Tanka Society of America since then. Besides publishing in TSA publications, his tanka have also been published in Atlas Poetica, Red Lights, and Bright Star. He often participates in poetry readings and workshops in his local area. He lives in Temple City, California with his wife, and they enjoy gardening and other outdoor activities such as hiking, golfing, and traveling. lavender festival under shade of trees gray hair couples from afar in folding chairs listening to “when I’m sixty four”                 Bright Star #7, 2014 walking under a shared umbrella in the hot sun . . . if our shadows lead shouldn’t we follow                 Red Lights 8:1, January 2012 in sunlight glistens a sticky spider web stretching across the walk in my haste to be elsewhere I’ve no patience for art                 Atlas Poetica #10, Autumn 2011