This month’s featured poet, Dick Allen, was Connecticut’s poet laureate from 2010 to 2015. He is the author of eight poetry collections and has received many of poetry’s highest honors and most ...

Shitou’s “Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage” is not as well-known as his poem “Harmony of Difference and Sameness.” Connelly, a Soto Zen priest in Minnesota, turns his attention to the a deceptively ...

a caterpillar crawls merely along the concrete. Anton Stephan is a longtime Rochester resident, with a background in education, where he worked for over 30 years. He is now retired. The Post Bulletin ...

A poet-priest of the late Edo period, Ryokan (1758-1831) was the most important Japanese poet of his age. This volume contains not only the largest English translation yet made of his principal poems, ...

But one friend pointed me to a salve: transportation writer and advocate Aaron Naparstek’s Honku — “the Zen antidote to road rage.” Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. To support our nonprofit ...

Those musingly following my summer of love picaresque have wincingly witnessed my forays into the higher (and lower) realms of poetry: a raucous impromptu poetry slam at Lux Lounge, the tragic vision ...