1+ week, 1+ day ago   (153+ words) Using indigo and micronized silver, multidisciplinary artist Miya Ando crafts odes to the ephemerality of natural phenomena. As a child growing up in Japan, Miya Ando once encountered a term for rain that utterly mystified her: kitsune no yomeiri, or…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (709+ words) Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge Because cumulus clouds are beautiful to behold and generally indicate fair weather, their white, billowing shapes relax the mind and stimulate daydreams, inviting comparisons to animals, people, and other shapes that live…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (454+ words) Blending Seon Buddhism and French symbolism, Lee Seong-bok pens enigmatic elegies to impermanence. “The rhythm of poetry is like that of a mourner’s,” writes the acclaimed South Korean poet Lee Seong-bok in Indeterminate Inflorescence. “Two steps forward, one step back......

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (269+ words) In experimental elegies for his homeland, Samyak Shertok’s poetry articulates a “ghost language” for grief and loss. Growing up in rural Nepal, Samyak Shertok never thought he would become a poet. In his childhood village where he says the only…...