Videos
Naomi Beth Wakan on her 90th birthday
Shaw TV Nanaimo
Meet Naomi Beth Wakan, the city of Nanaimo’s very first Poet Laureate
Cascadia Poetry Festival Reading
Naomi Beth Wakan
Shaw TV Nanaimo
Poetry Jam with Nanaimo’s Poet Laureate Naomi Beth Wakan
Shaw Spotlight
Nanaimo Bound, a visual telling of a poem written by Naomi Beth Wakan
90th Birthday – Endpapers
90th Birthday
Reading – 8 minutes
City of Nanaimo
Poet Laureate Presentation for Council – April 18, 2016
City of Nanaimo
Two Poems by Naomi Wakan read at the City Council meeting November 18, 2013.
Radio
Bookmobile
Bookmobile; radio essays on books and writing, by Naomi Beth Wakan, for CKGI radio, 2014
With thanks to Nathan Tinkham, for recording, and Frank Moher, for producing the series.
Each essay starts with some music and there is a music break and station identification part the way through.
Articles
NeverEnding Story
First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog
A Poet’s Roving Thoughts: An Interview with Naomi Beth Wakan by Robert Epstein
Naomi Beth Wakan
Naomi Beth Wakan has published over fifty books. She is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Nanaimo (2014–16) and the Federation of British Columbia Writers’ Inaugural Honorary Ambassador.
Wakan is a member of The League of Canadian Poets, Haiku Canada, and Tanka Canada. She lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, with her husband, the sculptor Elias Wakan.
the skylight frames
incessant rain and
wood-stove smoke
From The Way of Haiku