Tokyo Correspondence

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Friday, July 8, 2011

Announcing YuriKageyama.com

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This is my brand new web site _ Yuri Kageyama dot com. Thank you Ian Lynam for brilliant design work, a delightful collaboration process a...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Please come to my Book Party

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BOOK PARTY: A celebration of Music and Poetry upon the publication of YURI KAGEYAMA's "The New and Selected Yuri: Writing From Peel...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Isaku takes taiko to another place

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Isaku Kageyama believes taiko must claim its legitimate place in the world of great music. Japanese culture is beautiful. But unless Japan...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

I have a new book out: "The New and Selected Yuri"

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I have a new book out: "The New and Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling till Now," Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. ( Amazon US site ...

Haiku for Van Gogh

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Haiku for Van Gogh by Yuri Kageyama An old wooden desk Yellow dots of light shrieking Van Gogh's room Warped plums dagger rain Crazed ge...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Fun music in Tokyo

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Taiko drummer Isaku Kageyama shows he can swing on traps drums as well, delivering the pulse for Keisuke Kato, the guitarist singing his c...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Music in Tokyo (again)

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Tokyo rocks when Carl Freire picks up his guitar and gets up on stage. And what a steady hand I have as videographer with my iPhone. Pleas...
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Yuri Kageyama
Poet, writer in Tokyo. "The New and Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling till Now" Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. 2011. "Peeling" I. Reed Press. Poems, stories, essays in "Y'Bird" "Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience _ Short Fiction from Then to Now" "San Francisco Stories" "On a Bed of Rice" "Konch" "Breaking Silence" "Greenfield Review" "Beyond Rice" "River Styx" "Other Side River" "Yellow Silk" "Stories We Hold Secret" "MultiAmerica" and other publications. Read with Ishmael Reed, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Geraldine Kudaka, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Russel Baba, Seamus Heaney, Shozu Ben, Winchester Nii Tete, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Takenari Shibata, Toshinori Takimoto, Teruyuki and Haruna Kawabata, Keiji Kubo, Yumi Miyagishima, Carl Freire, Abel Coelho, Yuri Matsueda. "Talking TAIKO" a film by Yoshiaki Tago documents her poetry. "A Back Alley Asian American Love Story of Sorts" by Niccolo Caldararo of her story was shown at the San Francisco and New York Asian American film festivals, won awards at the 1986 Palo Alto Film Festival, 1987 Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1988 Onion City Film Festival. Magna cum laude Cornell University, M.A. the University of California Berkeley.
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