Translation, Poetry, and so many Possibilities
Translation has intrigued me since I was a kid going to a French school on the east coast of Canada. It opened up a magical …
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Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat
The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon Translated by Ivan Morris (Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1971) … I set about filling the notebooks with odd facts, stories from …
Interview on Translation
Masashi Musha interviewed me about translation and Japanese poetry. The interview was published in Poetry International .
Ecopoetics After 3.11
Discussing ecopoetry in the East Bay Hills with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Ryoichi Wago and Ayako Takahashi Ayako and I are working on a volume …
Ryoichi Wago and the Poetics of Catastrophe
In the car, after Jane Hirshfield gave us each a letterpress broadside of her poem, Ayako is explaining to Ryoichi, saying American poets exchange broadsides …