1. Sho Sugita
(April 2018/Contributors)

...ita writes and translates poetry in Matsumoto, Japan. He is the translator of Spiral Staircase: Collected Poems of Hirato Renkichi (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017) and author of Native Genius (The Elepha...

2. Hirato Renkichi
(April 2018/Contributors)

Born Kawahata Seiichi on December 9, 1893, in Osaka, Hirato Renkichi started writing poetry in 1912, first publishing in Banso under the guidance of Kawaji Ryuko. Although he worked at various publish

3. Hirato Renkichi: An Introduction
(April 2018/Creative non-fiction)

by Sho Sugita Biography of Hirato Renkichi Born Kawahata Seiichi on December 9, 1893, in Osaka, Hirato Renkichi started writing poetry in 1912, first publishing in Banso under the guidance of Kaw

4. On the State of the Imagists (1918)
(April 2018/Creative non-fiction)

by Hirato Renkichi, translated into English by Sho Sugita To American poets, or rather all Americans, the world is determined by values of the present. In order to capture an impervious image of mov

5. The Problem of Poetry and Prose Poetry (1921)
(April 2018/Creative non-fiction)

by Hirato Renkichi, translated into English by Sho Sugita The "problem of poetry and prose poetry," to be more specific, is the "problem of formal poetry and prose poetry." By pr

6. On Analogism (1922)
(April 2018/Creative non-fiction)

by Hirato Renkichi, translated into English by Sho Sugita I categorised a few of my new experiments in "Developments in the Four New Poetic Movements of 1921" from last year. The four

7. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(April 2018/Front page)

...Tiang, Joanna Lee, Xi Xi, Jennifer Feeley, William Masters and Wong Kwok Kui CREATIVE NON-FICTION: Sho Sugita and Hirato Renkichi EXCERPTS: Eileen Chang, Jane Weizhen Pan, Martin Merz and Cameron Su ...