How compiling a book on a 19th-century Buddhist nun gave a chronically ill writer the strength to fight to the death

Hồ Xuân Hương’s poetry resists the social hierarchies of 18th-century Vietnam through her subtle cleverness and hidden meanings.

A Zen teacher revisits the timeless words of one of poetry’s most cherished writers to explore the limits of language in expressing the ineffable.

Wen Yiduo’s poetry plays with classical conventions and articulates the need for new poetic forms.

Four poems from John Brehm’s new collection, Dharma Talk