Poetry after the Fukushima disaster | Excalibur Publications

Last week, second-year humanities students met leading figures of the Japanese literary community, and learned the difficulty of being a haiku poet in post-Fukushima Japan.They attended the on-campus launch of Monkey Business, the first English edition of the Japanese literary magazine. Their professor, Ted Goossen, is a translator and critic of Japanese literature. He worked with fellow critic and translator Motoyuki Shibata to bring the literary magazine to North American shores.