I picked one of my own poems this time, because I’m happy about the release of my new book and wanted to give you a taste.

Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna are one of Bollywood’s funniest couples. Their effortless chemistry, with witty digs they ...

Encinitas therapist Kristen Hornung has self-published her first book of poetry, “Too Jagged to Hold”. The deeply personal collection takes readers on her long and ongoing journey of recovery from ...

Probably because of my profession, I invariably zeroed in on The Asahi Shimbun’s “Kadan” tanka poetry section when I noticed Takashi Aso’s name there. Aso is a newspaper carrier. His verse that ran on ...

Poetry can express thoughts and emotions in freeing and insightful ways that prose simply cannot. For those who have never ...

In his speeches at the memorial ceremonies held in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba quoted from individuals with long ties to the respective cities. He used a ...

On one of these archipelagoes, a literary scholar named Thomas Metcalf searches through historical archives for a copy of a legendary poem, composed by a 20th-century poet, Francis Blundy, honoring ...

“That’s not his,” said Abilene Wanda Bell, of an Eisenhower sword requested by the Trump administration. “It’s one of the treasures of our history. That’s not somebody else’s to walk in and demand.” ...