Tokyo Correspondence

Notes from a writer beyond the headlines

Saturday, August 29, 2009

rocket scientist

›
rocket scientist a poem by Yuri Kageyama people sometimes laugh when they learn my father was a rocket scientist my father was also a child-...

money for art

›
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...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Talking Taiko _ the Movie

›
Yoichi Watanabe, master taiko drummer, shows his stuff at Bon Odori _ as he does each and every year (with Daisuke Watanabe and Isaku Kag...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Amanojaku at Astro Hall

›
Amanojaku led by master drummer and composer Yoichi Watanabe did their "live" concert at Astro Hall in Harajuku THU Aug 20. The st...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Noticing accents

›
I'd come home from international school, excited I had made a friend. I was puzzled one of the first questions my mother would ask was: ...

Isaku gets interviewed

›
Photo by Naokazu Oinuma. Isaku gets interviewed on his views on music, identity and the art of AMANOJAKU taiko in Isao Tokuhashi's ...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Literature, music and dance Aug. 23 at GAMUSO

›
A message from organizer David Hoenigman: Please don't forget PAINT YOUR TEETH vol. 4 Sunday, Aug. 23rd. Gamuso in Asagaya. 6:30 doo...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.