Poetry

Dogon oral tradition preserves songs by prophet Abirè Goro documenting nineteenth-century Dogon-Fulbe relations and prophecies that inform contemporary conflicts.

Examination of how poetry and philosophy intersect, overlap, and complicate each other's intellectual practices without collapsing into unified disciplines.

Examining the Amanda Gorman translation controversy to explore whether translators should be selected based on lived experience or professional knowledge and expertise.

Tozaburo Ono's wartime encounters with forcibly mobilized Korean workers at Fujinagata Shipyard and their influence on postwar poetic representation and philosophical development.