About
Miho Kinnas, poet, writer and translator, lives in South Carolina. She is the author of three poetry collections, Today, Fish Only (2014), Move Over Bird (2019) both published by Math Paper Press and Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias (2023) by Free Verse Press. Her poems, translations and book reviews appeared in various journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry, Asian Literary Journal: Cha, World Literature Today, Poetry Tokyo, American Book Review. She teaches poetry at Camp Conroy, a summer camp organized by Pat Conroy Literary Center, Writers.com, Life Long Learning, libraries and bookstores. She is a member of South Carolina Poetry Society (Board), Hilton Head Island Arts Council, Islands' Writers Network, Hilton Head Audubon Society, Art League of Hilton Head and Hilton Head World Affairs Council.
Featured Work
Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias
The poetry of Miho Kinnas draws on her Japanese heritage in her vividly imagistic collection. Several poems depend on a sensory experience, often of the natural world especially illuminating in her gathering of haiku and tanka. These small poems create tones ranging from the humorous to the contemplative to the sad through brief depictions of vivid scenes and actions. The book's subject is love, as Grace Cavalieri says in her blurb, “a theme that is perfect to make beauty permanent.” A reviewer, Jo Angela Edwins, points out that the appearance of the poems on the page invites as much contemplation as the words themselves.
