"Power of poetry" project inspired by CAS' Program for Teaching East Asia
The Program for Teaching East Asia (TEA) at the Center for Asian Studies helped inspire a project at the American School in Japan (ASIJ): a special tanka poetry exhibition commemorating the second anniversary of the triple tragedies of March 2011 in Northeastern Japan. During last summer's TEA Summer Institute, participant Kathy Krauth was moved by the reading of selections from “Voices from Japan,” a collection of poems written by survivors of the 2011 disasters and translated by a team including former CAS director and professor of Japanese Laurel Rasplica Rodd. Motivated by her experience in the summer, Krauth mobilized forces to hold the exhibit at ASIJ. TEA is happy to have inspired such a project. The project was recently featured in the Japan Times ().
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