Follow Friday: poetry month whatnot, in brief

[starlady]

epershand, "I Am Not a Camera" by W.H. Auden (with context)

azuire in poetry, "The Flight of Birds" by Meena Kandasamy

lnhammer has been posting translations of the poems of the Kokinshu, one of the two foundational collections of Japanese poetry, every day for a while now. He's recently taken a break to do the poetry of Ono no Komachi, who was awesome, and his translations of her work, and of all the other poems, are really good.