Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column

In Community

トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ,  イシゴ・トレイシー

For this time of Ramadan and in honor of the longstanding, ever-building relationship between the Japanese American and Muslim communities, I thought I would so very gratefully share this space with one of my own pieces alongside poetry from one of my community sisters, traci ishigo—a super wonderful creative ...

an homage for Yuri Kochiyama - read at the Los Angeles Memorial for Yuri on August 31, 2014

トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ

an homage for Yuri… — You were  the first stamp on the letter for the least likely to receive  the last one to forget a face 

Oldest-and-Still-Running-Asian-American Blah Blah Blah...

トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ

If you’ve heard about a thing called “Tuesday Night Cafe” you might have heard this line: “We’re one of the longest-running, free, public art+community series in Downtown L.A. and the oldest-and-still-running Asian American-run open mic space in the country…”