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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Mothers—affection, lost & found
キャシー・ニシモト・マサオカ, カート・ヨコヤマ=イケダ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month, we take a somewhat different turn, in presenting some prose from longtime community organizer and LA-native, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka, and a piece meant for the spoken word stage from Hawai‘i-born/Torrance-raised educator, Kurt Yokoyama-Ikeda. They both sent in pieces about their mothers and I found a yearning, discovery, and …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Encircle, In Dance
マヤ・クイダ=オスミ, ジェニ・エミコ・クイダ, トニー・オオスミ, エヴェリン・ヨシムラ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
For this month’s Nikkei Uncovered, we wave goodbye to the Obon season with special reflections from a family of activist/artists and a local legend & community organizer. Maiya, Jenni, and Tony Kuida-Osumi share with us poems that tie the dance we do in commemoration of ancestors at Obon, with homage …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Homage
ミア・アユミ・マルホトラ, ヘザー・ナガミ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Welcome to poetic homage with this month’s Nikkei Uncovered column. From Tucson, Arizona-based, Heather Nagami, and San Francisco Bay Area-based, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, we have the pleasure of hearing from two Kundiman fellow authors, who speak of the women who hold us, shape our contexts, and grip at the sensibility …
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 organizer, …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
To Spring
ブリン・サイトウ, タミコ・べイアー, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
In our last moments of spring, we’re making room for both reflection and movement forward. I invited this month’s guest poets to share some poetry on the broad themes of “spring” in terms of reflecting, looking ahead, making strides, leaving, leaping—whether with joy or exasperation or anything in between. We’re …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Resistance
ミヤ・イワタキ, ライアン・マサアキ・ヨコタ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Welcome back to this month’s edition of Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column. As we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the signing of E.O. 9066 and the 50th anniversary of the official Manzanar Pilgrimage, we look to the virtues of and stories behind resistance with pieces from Los Angeles Sansei writer …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Speaking
マリ・ナカノ, 劉 謙司, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month, we feature a visual artist based in New York, Mari Nakano, and a poet based in Los Angeles, Kenji Liu. Their writings speak to language—on words nudging a new mother to invention and genderless wordplay. There is a personal stretching and exploratory vibrancy with each of their works. …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Homeland
鷲巣 とし, スマ・ヤギ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month we feature Suma Yagi, an 89-year-old Nisei based in Seattle whose family was sent to Minidoka during World War II, and Toshi Washizu, a filmmaker originally from Japan who is now based in San Francisco. In light of the commemoration of Executive Order 9066 and the 75th anniversary …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Roots
ショーン・ミウラ, マリ・レスペランス, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Happy 2017, everyone! With quite the gripping year behind us, I find myself needing to look ahead from a grounded place and in order to do so, I look to all kinds of conversations and all forms of art. To fill up on inspiration, in the way we filled up …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Location
エイミー・ウエマツ, ヒロシ・カシワギ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
For the column’s inaugural post, we wanted to begin with the theme of place, location, and community and to highlight two veteran poets—Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Nisei poet based in San Francisco since 1962, and Amy Uyematsu, Sansei poet and native Angeleno. We are excited to begin with two writers who dedicate …