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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Baachan
シズエ・シーゲル, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month, we are happy to present two poems from San Francisco-based writer and visual artist, Shizue Siegel. As the founder/director of Write Now!, Shizue amplifies many voices throughout the Bay Area, and here we are honored to share her voice with pieces about her Baachan. Through this writing, we …

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Murmurs and Bones
リー・アン・ロリパフ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
We are honored to present three pieces here from South Dakota State Poet Laureate (2015-2019), Lee Ann Roripaugh. A personal and clanging reflection on the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami and earthquake, these poems are stunning murmurations of memory hitting against bone, of shadows that never quite evaporate, of ghosts alive and …

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Specks and Shadows
コウ・スギタ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Portland-based writer and musician Kou Sugita gives us several pieces in this month's column that nudge us into a quiet space of listening—to past echoes that still reverberate; to colors that heed our remembrance; to “the shadow of a shadow of a sound.” Kou’s pieces here are shown with a …

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Remembrance
レイ・フクダ・サリナス, グリール・ナカデガワ=リー, ノリコ・ナカダ, カート・ヨコヤマ=イケダ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Bite
中保 佐和子, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
It is a wonderful thing to be able to start the year with weather and words that are crisp, refreshing, new. This is the energy coming forth in prose poetry from Massachusetts based artist, Sawako Nakayasu, and here we are treated to her English and Japanese language versions for two …

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
As we continue...
クリスティン・キタノ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
What speaks as we continue on, through the generations or through a single moment we need to survive? What does that breath or utterance or silence sound like? In New York-based Professor Christine Kitano’s work that is shared with us here, we are treated to an urgency related to memory …

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Transformation
ブランドン・シモダ, エミリー・ミタムラ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Nothing like biting into the palpable words of poets to dig into the transformation that signifies this season. I had a great time reading the work of the writers we feature here this month on Nikkei Uncovered—Colorado-based Brandon Shimoda and Minneapolis-based Emily Mitamura. Lush and sinuous, resilient and expansive—from Emily’s Grub Mother—“…a …

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Canciones
ドリス・モロミサト, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Este mes, nos complace presentar dos poemas en español de la poetisa peruana Doris Moromisato Miasato. Ella es ecologista, feminista y budista y estos dos poemas son hermosas canciones de homenaje, uno para su padre y otro para el famoso artista japonés Hokusai. De los recuerdos evocados a aquellos imaginados, …

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Owed to Amy
ニーナ・チェン, ミヤ・イワタキ, キャシー・ニシモト・マサオカ, ケイコ・イカリ・ミヤ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
To borrow from the title of one of this month’s features, the theme for this month is all about paying homage to one of our most beloved writers, Amy Uyematsu. Amy has been writing and teaching for decades and is going through the fight of her life right now—and what …

Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Epicanthus
吉田 宏美, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
As we wish you all a wonderful dive into the heat of summer, I am excited to help celebrate the upcoming release of the Epicanthus poetry chapbook by Bloomington, Indiana-based Hiromi Yoshida. While the book’s title harkens toward a condition of obscured views, Hiromi's writing beautifully cuts right through the …