Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other ...

Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free verse. Try writing your own free verse poem. It doesn't have to rhyme or use a structure ...

His poems appeared in The Buffalo News, the Atlantic and the New Yorker. He published free verse and prose poetry under his own name and used the pseudonym Wesli Court, an anagram of his name ...