1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (206+ words) Monica Sok's debut poetry collection mythologizes her own family history in a haunting portrait of generational trauma and collective healing. For poet Monica Sok, writing is a form of offering. "My family is culturally Theravada Buddhist," she told the Adroit…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1508+ words) With questions about the end of life, a writer seeks guidance and companionship through conversation and ancient poetry. There's a poet who lives in Kumamoto. For the sake of this book, let me call her Tasogare-san. Some time passed before…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1023+ words) Jessica Angima talks with Buddhist teacher and rapper Born I about Lyrical Dharma, the limits of language, and how we all contain the seeds of our ancestors. I want to start with your background as a Ghanaian American. In the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (871+ words) Miranda Mellis's new novel imagines a detoxifying world and a daughter's quest to find her mother. When seven heads of state are spontaneously decapitated, seven enormous skyscraper flowers suddenly burst from the soil in their place. The unexpected blossoming allows…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (523+ words) Four poems by the Song dynasty writer Li Qingzhao (10841151 CE) "The feelings I make into poems / are like the magpie at night, / circling three times, unable to settle," writes Li Qingzhao in one of her surviving fragments. Though she is…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1856+ words) Tricycle's executive editor discusses his father's dementia diagnosis and the questions it raises about memory, impermanence, and identity. Tricycle is pleased to offer the Tricycle Talks podcast for free. If you would like to support this offering,please consider donating....

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (918+ words) Three poems by the Taiwanese writer Chen Yuhong Chen Yuhong is one of the most prominent contemporary poets in Taiwan. Though her work has been translated into a number of languages including Japanese, French, Dutch, and Swedish, until this year…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1973+ words) Poet Li-Young Lee discusses the spiritual influences on his poetry and how he writes from a state of don't-know mind. Tricycle is pleased to offer the Tricycle Talks podcast for free. If you would like to support this offering,please…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (329+ words) Yuki Tanaka's poems drift between voices and consciousnesses in depicting the shifting nature of the self. In the midst of the collection's landscape of loneliness and dislocation, "Aubade" testifies to the acts of care and communion that are still possible'and…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1193+ words) David Guterson's new novel weaves together the stories of a young mother from Indiana and a Buddhist monk from the mountains of Tibet and their parallel quests for freedom and meaning. Tricycle is pleased to offer the Tricycle Talks podcast…...