I am so happy and grateful for having been the lead editor of this Topojo volume with Zoria Petkoska. Thanks to everyone at Tokyo Poetry Journal for your support and patience! Here is the poem I wrote for this theme, "Matches". Hopefully, it will take all of you around the city. Also, I am attaching... Leer más →
Presentation at WCAAS 2021
Hi, everyone! I would like to invite you to this open panel in which I will join fellow researchers Yaxkin Melchy, Alonso Belaúnde Degregori and Gabriela Li Causi in discussing contemporary Japanese poets and travelers. It wil be held at 8:30 am MDT (that is 11:30 am for ART and 11:30 pm for JST). Here... Leer más →
Translation exercise
My class at Kyoritsu University went very smoothly today! The students were all really motivated after discussing the Japanese translation of the archipelago's most beloved song of all times: 『ありのままで』, better-known elsewhere (Elsa-where) as Let it go. After calling their attention with that, however, we continued the class by debating haiku translations of Bashō, Buson,... Leer más →