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Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Holding
チサオ・ハタ, ケン・ヨシカワ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month’s column features two friends I made when I participated in a movement response workshop in Chicago last summer, led by Chisao Hata, featuring our physical reaction to poetics expressed by actor & poet Ken Yoshikawa. With the emphasis on an intergenerational lens through which we shared, I looked …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Negotiating Place
ソフィア・イナバ, リノ・コダマ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Here we have a first for the Nikkei Uncovered poetry column - a collaborative piece between two wondrous young Nikkei, both University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) students and “Shin-Nisei,” 1.5 generation artists. They write this from the place of anticipating their Pilgrimage together to Manzanar this month, alongside their …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Roots and Branches
ヨシカ・ウェイソン, ミカ・タサカ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Happy spring everyone! This month, we’re excited to feature two poets who both happen to be based in Japan. Micah Tasaka, a queer, genderfluid, mixed race Yonsei artist originally from the Inland Empire now based in Fukui prefecture; and Yoshika Wason, a second generation, mixed race artist who hails from …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Circles, Cycles, Commemoration
ミツエ・ヤマダ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month, as we commemorate EO 9066, we thought it fitting to honor one of our longest standing and veteran poets, Mitsuye Yamada. At 95 years of age, she has been published for several decades and is still going. Here, she shares with us some previous work as well as …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Japanese American Women Speak
タニ・イケダ, キョウコ・ナカマル, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
For this month’s column, opening us into a whole new year, I’m so happy to feature healer and artist kyoko nakamaru and filmmaker Tani Ikeda, who together are co-founders of JAWS — Japanese American Women Speak. They are both based in Los Angeles, California (Kyoko via Wisconsin and Iowa, and …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Sansei
ジャニス・イワナガ・イェン, パトリシア・タカヤマ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
As a younger Sansei/older Yonsei, I've been reflecting a lot on the big sisters and cousins of the Sansei generation who have raised or influenced many of us in our activism, community involvement, and understanding of ourselves as connected to others. This month, we feature pieces of generational and personal …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Honoring
ホセ・ワタナベ, セッシュウ・フォスター, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month, we are greatly honored to present a poem by renowned and beloved Peruvian poet, the late José Watanabe. In turn, his poetry here honors the 75th birthday of his mama and the indelible impact of mothers. The wonderful translation for the poem is provided by Michelle Har Kim. …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Longing
松本 登美子, 松本 ゲンノスケ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
This month, we feature poetry in Nihongo (with English translation) from Tomiko Matsumoto and Gennosuke Matsumoto, who were both originally from Chiba and eventually married there, before living in Seattle and later imprisoned in the Heart Mountain, Wyoming concentration camp during World War II. Their poetry here comes through that …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
Little Tokyo
D・ヒデオ・マルヤマ, マイク・ソンクセン, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
We have a focus on Little Tokyo as inspiration and a special triple threat treat for this month’s edition of Nikkei Uncovered. First, we have a piece from D Hideo Maruyama, based in LA and a veteran of the Asian American literary scene. Next is poetry from third generation LA native, …
Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column
FIRE
コリーン・“コーク”・タニ, ジェナ・ヨコヤマ, トレイシー・カトウ=キリヤマ
Fire. No, not in reference to the countless acres of land and livelihood burning across California this summer. But perhaps subconsciously inspired by the precarious path nature takes us on, I was drawn to this theme and to featuring these pieces meant for the mature reader of this month’s column. …