Miho Nonaka, a bilingual poet from Tokyo, is the author of The Museum of Small Bones (Ashland Poetry Press, 2020) and the Japanese translator of Louise Glück’s Wild Iris (KADOKAWA, 2021). Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Copper Nickel, Missouri Review, and Southern Review. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.
Mar/Apr 2017
Production of Silk
Heavenly Worm Mrs. Itō, our fourth-grade teacher, drew a new kanji character on the board: 蚕. “Worm from heaven,” she announced, “as you can see.” Heaven splits open like a […]