Each day during the month of April, KUOW is highlighting the work of Seattle-based poets for National Poetry Month. In this series curated by Seattle Civic Poet and Ten Thousand Things host Shin Yu ...
“I tilt the bottle/ wanting to trap/ the sparkling fireworks/ inside the glass marble of/ my 'ramune' soda.” Minami Towada, a junior high school first-year student, composed this tanka, beautifully ...
After months of wearing masks as a matter of habit, we were told the other day that it’s now a “matter of personal choice.” This is certainly a milestone of sorts, but we’d be wise to not let our ...
Machi Tawara made a spectacular debut as a tanka poet at the age of 25 in 1987, and since then the Osaka-born artist has devoted her life to condensing her world into those neat, rhythmic but not ...
The classic Japanese poetry of a professor at the University of Guam’s School of Education has been published by JustFiction Edition. Winter Woods: My Journey into Tanka by Yukiko Inoue-Smith, ...
Food and poetry are like two friends who come together to create a delightful experience. Food inspires poets to describe its flavors, textures, and emotions it evokes, while poetry adds a touch of ...
It has been 79 years since an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and the number of people able to recount the events from first-hand experience is shrinking fast. Determined to keep the stories ...
Welcome to a poetic exploration of restaurant cuisine! We are about to describe delicious dishes in a unique style called tanka poems. Think of it as a journey through food, where we use words to ...
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