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Travel Writing, Poetry & the Uta Makura

In the book Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature 1860-1912, Susanna Fessler identifies two central features of Japanese travel literature: 1) uta makura (codified poetic references) and 2) meisho (famous travel places). She writes: “Most...

Poetry Mode – Back Again in a New Form

Poetry Mode started as a Facebook page in 2017. I was tired of submitting poems to journals, then waiting weeks, months or, in one case, nearly two years to get a response, especially when the response was a rejection.  Even when my poems were accepted, the wait...