Tokyo Correspondence

Notes from a writer beyond the headlines

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Taiko photos

photos by Ryan Bruss. Three members of Amanojaku _ Daisuke Watanabe, Chris Holland and Isaku Kageyama _ perform at a wedding.

Bowery Poetry Club

Photo by Annette Dorfman. I am reading at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York: ISHMAEL REED HOSTS READING OF HIS NEW ANTHOLOGY, POW-WOW....

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Isaku's concerts and workshops

Taiko drummer and my son Isaku Kageyama has concerts coming up in April and May with his rock group Hybrid Soul. 2009/4/30 LIVE ( HYBR...

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About Me

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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