Shelves for rice are seen almost empty at a supermarket in Tokyo's Nerima Ward due to shortages of the staple, on Aug. 31, 2024. (Mainichi/Yuki Miyatake) TOKYO -- The Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co. on ...
Like copywriters, haiku poets know how to pack a punch with a few words. Marc Awodey, Burlington artist/poet and art critic for Seven Days, has considerable cred where this Japanese form is concerned: ...
An annual contest for senryu, or traditional Japanese short poetry, in Tottori Prefecture came to an end this month after 20 years due to suspicion some of the participants might have used artificial ...
Susan R. Williamson, Director of the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, and Blaise Allen, Ph.D., the Festival's Director of Community Outreach, today announced a collaboration with the Morikami Museum & ...
Linda Wingerter was very familiar with the two-lane stretch of highway in Ulysses, New York. For a time, she and her husband traveled it most Sundays to visit friends. Those trips stopped in early ...
TOKYO -- The Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co. on Jan. 30 announced the top 100 poems from its "Saratto Ikku!" senryu contest, with ...