Alan Botsford has published two poetry collections, as well as the hybrid essay-dialogue-poetry collectionWalt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore (2010). He is Associate Professor of American Literature at Kanto Gakuin University and serves as editor of Poetry Kanto, an annual bi-lingual journal concerned with the interplay of voices East, West, and beyond.
Tanikawa Shuntaro. Across the 60 years of Tanikawa Shuntaro’s publishing career he became and remains the most widely-read of all post-war Japanese poets