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DESCRIPTION:The Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) will celebrate
  National Poetry Month in April with a special poetry reading featuring va
 rious perspectives on the incarceration experience of Japanese Americans d
 uring World War II. The reading is set for Sunday April 12\, 2015\, beginn
 ing at 1:00 p.m. at JAMsj\, 535 N. Fifth Street\, San Jose\, CA 95112.\n\n
 Participating poets are Mitsuye Yamada\, Nisei poet and author of Camp Not
 es\, Nellie Wong (friend of War Relocation Authority incarceree)\, author 
 of Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park and Stolen Moments\, Mariko Nagai\, no
 velist\, author of Dust of Eden\, Brian Komei Dempster (son of War Relocat
 ion Authority incarceree)\, author of Topaz and Brynn Saito (granddaughter
  of War Relocation Authority incarcerees)\, author of The Palace of Contem
 plating Departure. The program will close with an Open Mic session\, and m
 embers of the audience will be invited to read their own poetry.\n\nCost: 
 Free with admission to the museum (nonmembers\, $5\; students and seniors 
 over age 65\, $3\; JAMsj members and children under 12\, free). Seating is
  limited. To reserve your place\, email PublicPrograms@jamsj.org or call (
 408) 294-3138.\n\nAbout the Poets\n \n MITSUYE YAMADA was born in Japan wh
 ile her first-generation Japanese American parents were visiting\, but was
  raised in the U.S. Her first book\, Camp Notes\, chronicles her experienc
 e with internment from evacuation to leaving the WWII incarceration center
 s. An activist\, poet\, story writer\, and former English Professor\, Yama
 da has contributed to This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Wome
 n of Color\, was featured in Mitsuye and Nellie Asian America Poets\, has 
 received a Vesta Award from the Woman&rsquo\;s Building in Los Angeles\, a
 nd has served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International for eight
  years.\n \n NELLIE WONG has published several poetry collections: Dreams 
 in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments 
 and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. Her poems and essays have appeared in antholog
 ies and journals in the U.S.\, Italy\, France and Australia. She is co-fea
 tured in the documentary film\, Mitsuye and Nellie Asian America Poets. An
  activist in the labor\, women\, racial justice and political prisoner rig
 hts&rsquo\; movements\, she was recognized by her alma mater\, Oakland Hig
 h School\, by having a building named after her.\n\nMARIKO NAGAI is a grad
 uate of New York University where she was the Erich Maria Remarque Fellow.
  She has received the Pushcart Prizes both in poetry and fiction (nominate
 d five times) and several fellowships including the Rockefeller Foundation
  Bellagio Center\, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts\, Akademie Schlo
 ss Solitude\, and Yaddo. Her books include Histories of Bodies: Poems\, Ge
 orgic: Stories\, and Dust of Eden: A Novel. She is currently an Associate 
 Professor at Temple University's Japan Campus. www.mariko-nagai.com\n\nBRI
 AN KOMEI DEMPSTER&rsquo\;S debut book of poetry\, Topaz\, was published by
  Four Way Books in 2013 and received the 15 Bytes 2014 Book Award in Poetr
 y. Dempster is editor of From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America
 's Concentration Camp\, which received a 2007 Nisei Voices Award from the 
 National Japanese American Historical Society\, and Making Home from War: 
 Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement. He is a professor of 
 rhetoric and language and a faculty member in Asian Pacific American Studi
 es at the University of San Francisco\, where he also serves as Director o
 f Administration for the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies.\n\nBRYNN 
 SAITO is the author of The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, winner of t
 he Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the 2
 013 Northern California Book Award. Her second book of poems--due out in t
 he Spring of 2016--incorporates the stories of the wartime incarceration o
 f her Japanese American grandparents. Brynn&rsquo\;s work has been antholo
 gized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed\; and has appeared in journals suc
 h as Poetry Northwest and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
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SUMMARY:“Perspectives on Camp” in Celebration of National Poetry Month
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