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POETRY MIGNETTE

CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Apr 18, 2001
Poet forging links from East to West
The longest running English poetry journal in Japan, Poetry Nippon, was founded in the fall of 1967. Edited by Sapporo-based poet and translator Yorifumi Yaguchi, it has helped forge links between Japanese, British and American poetry for over 30 years.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Mar 18, 2001
Kan Mikami's 30 years of recording in a box
Kan Mikami has just released a CD box set to celebrate his 30-year recording history, here covered in 19 CDs.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Feb 18, 2001
Avant-garde poet tosses Japan a luscious bouquet
The end of last year and the beginning of this one has produced a fine crop of poetry publications. Though each of these volumes deserves its own separate review, happily I'm able to give these works exposure here.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Jan 21, 2001
A little home for poetry in Shinagawa
Keiyudoh is a book store specializing in rare art books, with a small gallery in the back. Currently the gallery features an exhibition of calligraphy by Sueo Akiyama, a self-taught artist, whose works have received cultural awards in Poland and France recently. Keiyudoh also publishes the journal Le Carrosse d'Or.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Dec 17, 2000
Speaking to both the eye and the ear
Poet Keiichi Nakamura first wrote tanka, and then composed monotype lithographs after graduating from the University of Sapporo. Later he created collages in which he explored the fusion of poetry with images.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Nov 19, 2000
Poetry readings in Okinawa
In Itoman, Okinawa Prefecture Oct. 15, Shuntaro Tanikawa read such scatological, contemporary poems as "Onara (Fart)" and "Unko (Crap)" from his collection "Hadaka" (the English edition, "Naked," is jointly published by Stone Bridge Press and Saru Press).
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Oct 15, 2000
Rexroth revolution comes home to Japan
Yokohama-based essayist and poet Morgan Gibson has been and continues to be one of the most prolific contributors to Japan's English literary scene. Of his own work he had poems published in the 1970s in pioneering journals like One Mind and Kyoto Review and later, in the '80s, in publications like Blue Jacket; his most recent poetry has appeared in Yomimono.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Sep 17, 2000
Tokyo poets get a night out to Howl
Howl, the bar in Aoyama, was founded just after Allen Ginsberg's death in 1997.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Aug 20, 2000
A wealth of autumn events to delight all Tokyo wordsmiths
The upcoming "Ueno Poetrican Jam" is being touted as the biggest poetry-reading event ever to be held in Japan. About 60 poets have been selected from volunteers to participate, and recognized poets such as Sandaime Uotake, Shigeo Hamada and Ikuo Tani will also be on the bill.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Jul 16, 2000
When dream makers walk among us
Socrates' bestial laugh washes into the cosmic map where Blake digs with his spade and Sam stands bathed in the sparks of his youth Among colored shapes, Sam embraces the warmest softest things a woman's spirit in the shape of clouds in the shape of foam in the shape of a womb The white space of the canvas shines
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Jun 18, 2000
Cafe's tempting literary brew
Cafe Independent, a "rattle-bag collection of poetry, art, pearls of prose . . . ," is produced by Oliver Kinghorn and Shannon Smith in Kyoto.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
May 21, 2000
Japanese poets write the book of love
Stroker, a publisher of chapbooks, is the distributor and copublisher of "2000 Japanese Poems for the Year 2000," a voluminous collection of chapbooks, 15 in all, translated by Howard S. Levy.
CULTURE / Books / POETRY MIGNETTE
Apr 16, 2000
The silken soul of modern poetry in Japan
At the Power of the Spoken Word reading at Ben's Cafe last month, Yasuo Fujitomi, John Solt, Masafumi Suzuki and Misako Yarita read from their works. Scholar and poet Fujitomi read from poems published in his CD of the highmoonoon spoken literature series, "whatnever" (3,500 yen), a sophisticated production designed by long-time VOU member Shohachiro Takahashi.
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In a first, Japan doctors sue Google over negative reviews on firm's map app
One of the lawyers representing a group of doctors suing Google told a news conference that the main purpose of the lawsuit is not to seek compensation but instead to raise awareness over various problems with the Google Maps system.
Former No. 1 Kento Momota retires from international badminton at 29
Badminton star Kento Momota leaves a news conference after announcing his retirement from Japan's national team, in Tokyo on Thursday.
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'House of the Owl' brings Hollywood values to Japanese TV
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