Tokyo Correspondence

Heard the other day at Gamuso, a cool artsy dive in Tokyo where I have read poetry with music a couple of times, Samm Bennett on the diddl...

What I found and was happy to find from taiko drummer Isaku Kageyama and what is the dream of all arists: I wanted to play at the highest ...

P.S. to Tadanori Yokoo on Twitter Part Two: That is not to say that an artist isn't confident of one's value. If you aren't sur...

Annette has been my friend for a long time because we used to ride the Chuo Line together to go to high school in Tokyo. She is also a great...

DO YR ART D WAY U WANT ANYWAY U WANT ANY WANGOL U WANT ITS UP TO U/WHAT WILL WORK FOR U. _ from "Catechism of d Neoamerican Hoodoo Chur...

what does it mean to be Japanese? what does it mean to be American? what is yellow vs. what is black/white? what is Music? what is art? and ...

who is the poet? a poem by Yuri Kageyama poets who pause to pontificate poets who write for grants poets who count syllables poets who admir...

In sports, career, dating and other games people play in life, there is always a winner and there is always a loser. Most people spend their...

LIFE IS GOOD.

Long before working mothers became so accepted they're TV-drama heroines, there was a gathering of feminists in Tokyo, where pantomimist...

Bursts of myopic but weirdly proud hatred thrive on the Net under the guise of anonymity. Words are spat out, and, oh, with such venom and t...

This is what I heard from a dancer. But the biggest stars of Tokyo Butoh troupe Dairakudakan, not just the student dancers, don't ever...

Yoichi Watanabe, master taiko drummer, shows his stuff at Bon Odori _ as he does each and every year (with Daisuke Watanabe and Isaku Kag...

Jellyfish in Monterey photo by Annette Dorfman.

AMANOJAKU Tokyo's Top-Level Taiko "SOUL BEAT/TAMASHII NO HIBIKI" Harajuku ASTRO Hall THU Aug. 20 7:30 p.m. (Admision start...

poem Re poet a poem by Yuri Kageyama ninja lost in the commuter train the voice in the urban wilderness shaman moaning an improvised chant...

Photo (today) by Annette Dorfman. My column (from way back) in the Hokubei Mainichi: "I'm Christopher Robin, and you're Poo...

May 13, 2009 was an important day for our son and taiko drummer Isaku Kageyama. He played with Japanese jazz trumpeter Toshinori Kondo a...

Poet and novelist Ishmael Reed once said he read to an audience two poems _ one by a Nobel laureate and another by one of his students _ and...

ちる桜 ここにいます！と どぶによむ sakura petals falling, write "I am here!" into the ditch