Slam poetry is a rarity in Japan, but the scene is full of energy and potential that the poets have been bringing to the ...

People at an event in Tokyo have remembered renowned Japanese poet Tanikawa Shuntaro, who died last November at the age of 92 ...

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Students will experience Japanese poetry through haiku. Standard 1. Students know how to use and construct maps, globes, and other geographic tools to locate and derive information about people, ...

TOKYO -- Among the Japanese literary figures Donald Keene admired was Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), who was the subject of a serial he carried in the Shincho magazine during 2011. Keene credited ...

More than 135 of these poems have been recorded. The Angel Island Immigration Station was in operation from 1910 to 1940. During World War II, the site was used to hold prisoners of war and as a ...

For two months, micropaleontologist Jens Herrle sailed across the Indian Ocean, searching for traces of Earth’s distant past.

Instead, she dealt with the pain by writing tanka, a traditional form of Japanese poetry using only 31 syllables. One of her poems translates to, "Friends missing during hide-and-seek. I live ...

Her poem "On Mothering" features a quote from a Miranda Field's essay about Fanny Howe's poetry ("Miranda Field on Fanny Howe," from the anthology "Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections"): ...

Fierce, witty, and vibrant—and dubbed by Anne Waldman as “a true sister of the beats”—Radical feminist poet Hiromi Ito is a key figure in Japanese poetry, noted for her innovative experiments with ...