Workshop in Poetics and Mantis: Sake Poetry Event
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The Workshop in Poetics and are collaborating together to host an event in commemoration of a special section in this year's issue, focusing on contemporary sake?tanka?(短歌,?31 syllable poetry).?Sake has long been a?topos of poetry in Classical East Asian Poetry?and?this bilingual section was spearheaded by sake maker Kazuyo Fukao who solicited?tanka?from?across?Japan. Fukao's brewery is located in Gifu Prefecture in a town where Sogi?宗祗?(1421-1502), the most well-known writer of 連歌?(renga,?linked poetry from the Medieval era), spent many years there, sponsored by the local clan. Together with Mantis editor Katherine Whatley, Fukao will discuss the connection between sake making and poetry, the history of sake poetry and the importance of song in rural communities in Japan.??
Hosted by Workshop in Poetics and?Mantis.?
For more information, contact Katherine Whatley at?kwhatley [at] stanford.edu (kwhatley[at]stanford[dot]edu).