Ueno Park in central Tokyo is one of the world's great public spaces, visited by over ten million people a year. These snapshot poems written there capture moments of pleasure, pain, reflection, humor, and surprise.
Ueno Park in central Tokyo is one of the world's great public spaces, visited by over ten million people a year. These snapshot poems written there ca...
In February 1917, the SS Mendi, traveling through thick fog, collided with another steamship and sank off the Isle of Wight, leading to the deaths of more than six hundred men, mostly black South Africans troops from the South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC). The men of the SANLC were traveling to the Western Front in the hopes that their contributions to the war effort would lead to greater opportunities in the new white-ruled nation of South Africa after the war hopes that ultimately proved unfounded. The sinking of the SS Mendi marked one of the largest losses of life...
In February 1917, the SS Mendi, traveling through thick fog, collided with another steamship and sank off the Isle of Wight, leading to the dea...
