Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry ...

Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth dubbed “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan,” died of heart failure on June 14, Shichosha, a Tokyo publisher of her works, said Wednesday.

This little poem never fails to make me smile--it leads off Sandra Cisneros's 1994 volume of poems, Loose Woman, and is a lightly irreverent, highly rhetorical declaration, a rococo piece of work ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the most celebrated Japanese modern poets who pushed the boundaries of the genre, died on Nov. 13. He was 92. His bold use of plain language gave his works ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93.

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet ...

TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet ...