5.2 Shizuka Omori and Yuki Tanaka on tanka and translation

The latest issue of Literary Imagination includes Six Tanka by Shizuka Omori, and on today’s episode Literary Imagination editor Paul Franz brings together Shizuka Omori reading her poetry, along with translations by poet Yuki Tanaka. And after the poems, an interview between Franz, Omori and Tanaka about the tanka tradition and method, as well as an exploration of the process of translation. We’ve made Omori’s tanka pieces In Literary Imagination free to read on Project MUSE thru the end of the month.