What one want's more than anything is a quiet place to sit & think, or read, or write, or talk softly with a like-minded companion. A place of warmth & some comfort. A place where one is home without being home. A place where books get read & written, where poetry happens & one simply writes it down.

Books and Essays
on Education

Books on Offer

Vintage Writing Instruments
& Desktop Items on Offer
A Written Word is located in Kyoto, Japan & is just the sort of spot a beat poet like Phil Whalen or Gary Snyder might have talked with artist Will Petersen or editor Cid Corman. Their books & prints & those of their spiritual peers are for sale or trade in our Books on Offer room.

And what better way to write beat poetry or anything else, than with a vintage fountain pen or mechanical pencil, on sale in the Vintage Writing Instruments & Desktop Items Room.

Our Poetry & Art Room is home of poem of the month & various temporary art & poetry installments. Feel free to carry your coffee in with you.

Poetry postcards are available from the Written word post-office for you to send free of charge, and, the books and essays of proprietor Charles Sandy are available for your perusal in the Books and Essays room.

After having your fill at A Written Word, drop & visit with some of our like-minded friends.
A Written Word is just such a place -- a place where you're very welcome, & welcome to stay as long as you like, with free coffee & the likelihood of cat on your lap.

Poems & Poets

Poem Postcards

Featured Poet:
Cid Corman




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