For poet and emcee G Yamazawa, there has always been power in being an “outsider.” Yamazawa became the youngest-ever poet to win a National Poetry Slam Championship with the Beltway Poetry Slam team ...

(RNS) — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne's new novel was created with the help of an AI poet and a few computer programs — and explores his love of poetry and his Buddhist background. (RNS) — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne ...

KALAMAZOO--The waka poets of medieval Japan and their work will be examined later this month when a Japanese scholar visits Western Michigan University. Dr. Stephen Miller, assistant professor of ...

Award-winning poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield joins KCRW’s Jonathan Bastian to talk about her latest collection of poems "Ledger," Buddhism, and the importance of words and imagery in times of great ...

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In June 2022, the Plum Village Monastery near the French city of Bordeaux held a 40th anniversary retreat that included an evening of musical celebration for an audience of hundreds. The Buddhist ...

Thirty-one years after he committed suicide in his East Cleveland apartment shortly after his 26th birthday, this legendary beat poet and publisher becomes a bit less mythic with the first widely ...

Unduvap Full Moon Poya is very significant for Buddhists in Sri Lanka, more so for women as Arahant Sanghamitta Theri arrived in Sri Lanka with a sapling of the Sri Maha Bodhi from India, to be ...