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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Reading the air

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The idea of "reading the air" sounds absurd. But Japanese talk about it and do it all the time _ the art of staying so in tune to ...
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Isaku gets taiko rocking with Hybrid Soul

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HYBRID SOUL brings together the West and the East/minyo tunes with rock/jazz fusion with Isaku Kageyama on taiko, Pat Glynn on bass and Ch...

A stamp of approval from Ishmael Reed

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Photo by Tennessee Reed. In New York with Ishmael Reed, Carla Blank, Wajahat Ali, the actors of Ali's play "The Domestic Crusaders,...

Assumptions

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Assumptions a poem by Yuri Kageyama when people bad-mouth us sneering in French assumptions are being made of us a yellow face is non-litera...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Yoshiaki Tago Film-maker

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Film-maker Yoshiaki Tago in his Tokyo office. Tago and I are working on a film together. Surprisingly, it's only recently (after rem...

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Film-maker Yoshiaki Tago in his Tokyo office.
Sunday, May 17, 2009

poem RE poet

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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...
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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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