Interested in Japanese poetry? Author and translator Roger Pulvers offers a few minutes of poetry on his YouTube channel each update. His recitation of Masaoka Shiki above is typical of his offerings where he reads haiku and tanka. He introduces the poet, recites some of their well-known verses (that he translated into English himself) and More…
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Peaceful Circumstances, by Roger Pulvers
(Feature photo: “The Red Room” by Lucy Pulvers) Peaceful Circumstances is the story of Karen, a twenty-one-year-old white woman from Los Angeles. Sitting beside the hospital bed of her father, who is in a coma, she is convinced that he can hear her; so, over a single night, she tells him what happened to her More…