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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Fall
タミコ・べイアー, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
The last time we featured Dorchester, MA-based poet, Tamiko Beyer was Spring of 2017, so thought it would be wonderful to have her back to help us usher in Fall with her wonderful work. The selections, from her book Last Days, have a razor’s edge that I love, each line …
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 …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Retracing / Return
ノリコ・ナカダ, ガレット・クライ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month, we feature the lovely words of LA-based poets, Noriko Nakada and Garrett Kurai. I've returned to a practice of penning letters, cards, personal messages to be sent by post or out into the ether for recipients I may never actually meet, and when I read through the words …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Dancing in the Clouds
ショウ・タナカ, ポーレット・M・モレノ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month, we have the honor of publishing works by two poets who lent their voices to our second annual reading last week for “Nikkei Uncovered”—Shō Tanaka and Paulette M. Moreno. They both took great care in what and how they delivered their words together as a pairing that we …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Hailing
ミヤ・イワタキ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month, we are honored to again feature the fierce Miya Iwataki, a veteran activist, core member of NCRR (Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress), and writer based in Los Angeles. She presents four poems here—an observation of and hailing to the world around her, from the intimate to the …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Year-ending
エイミー・ウエマツ, タミコ・ニムラ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
As we survey the past year of lockdowns and quarantines that started here in the States by mid-March, 2020, we take stock of a wide spectrum of revelations and experiences over the last twelve months. From new personal practices and experiments in the arena of safer-at-home, to illness and loss, …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
In this moment
リノ・コダマ, キャロリー・オカモト, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
While we typically link a theme together from the poems we receive from two or more writers, this month we're featuring two voices whose pieces are situated very personally within their own moments, within their own season. Seattle-based Sansei Carolee Okamoto just began writing in 2017 as a way to …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Seize—transformation & renewal
ブライアン・コメイ・デンプスター, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Leaving the end of a long 2020 while entering 2021 with a combination of uncertainty, excitement, determined joy, and perpetual angst, I thought it fitting to have this month’s theme derive its inspiration from the writer and the title of his latest book of poetry, Seize. This month’s feature, Brian …