A collection of “tanka” poems about the COVID-19 pandemic that Gendai Tanka Kyokai (The association of contemporary tanka poets) published recently gives us a look back on the last three years.

Last month, an experiment called “Marugoto Tanka,” meaning the entire village is for tanka poetry, was held in the town, and I went to check it out. With the aid of a map, the idea was to look ...

TOKYO -- Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with ...

A memorial service for U.S. prisoners of war who were executed by those connected to the former Imperial Japanese Army's ...

Keene credited Shiki with reviving and modernizing classical haiku and tanka poetry, which were in decline at the time. The following passage is from the preface of Keene's biography on Shiki ...

Using the Golden Shovel poetic form, which borrows words from another... Writing in five-line tanka poems, Grimes (Words with Wings) weaves a heart-wrenching story about a boy who isn’t the jock ...

Shiraishi’s personality and poems, which were sometimes bizarre or erotic, defied Japan’s historical rule-bound forms of literature like haiku and tanka, instead taking a modern, unexplored path.

Shiraishi’s personality and poems, which were sometimes bizarre or erotic, defied Japan’s historical rule-bound forms of literature like haiku and tanka, instead taking a modern, unexplored path.

Shiraishi's personality and poems, which were sometimes bizarre or erotic, defied Japan's historical rule-bound forms of literature like haiku and tanka, instead taking a modern, unexplored path.