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

UW-Madison professor Adam Kern at his home. Kern's interest in Japanese comic books as a teenager led him to study them as a ...

Starting off her list, Colleen named Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein as one of her all-time favourites. This book ...

Burlingame poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra decided that if she was going to write a book on motherhood, it should go beyond skimming ...

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

Champagne Poetry has always been more than a flashy influencer bakery.

A new Japanese restaurant is opening in NuLu this week, and its from the mind of one of Louisville's most well-known ...

Lyrical language meets storytelling in ten novels that echo the depth of poetry without a single stanza. For lovers of rhythm ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art showcases the longtime cultural meaning in the practice of chanoyu ...

Some of the oldest poems are about war. Verses about warfare were carved onto Sumerian tablets that are more than four millennia old. Japanese samurai also wrote poetry about battles, as did Walt ...

In Japan, the simple act of walking has long been connected to working toward enlightenment.