Tokyo Correspondence

Notes from a writer beyond the headlines

Sunday, November 29, 2009

AMANOJAKU Taiko at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo

›
THE BEAT OF LEGACY - Dentou no Hibiki AMANOJAKU Taiko Concert in Tokyo TUE Dec. 8, 2009 Sogestsu Hall 7 p.m. (doors open 6:30 p.m.) For ...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Transcending age, sex and race

›
When we get old, very very old, so old we are covered with wrinkles and our skin is pale and our breasts shrivel and droop and an old man lo...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

hating weddings

›
I've never liked weddings. I find them frightening. Weddings are a very expensive performance designed to present an image of a social c...
4 comments:
Monday, November 9, 2009

MoveThatPoem

›
To All who will MoveThatPoem, Thanks for this book and the spirit that it brings transcending borders of nations and cultures. I have adde...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

The Autobiography of Yoichi Watanabe

›
Yoichi Watanabe, (photo by Naokazu Oinuma) leader of Tokyo taiko group Amanojaku, is relating his life history and his thoughts on taiko...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

food for thot

›
food for thot a poem by Yuri Kageyama japanese cars must be like sushi, tempura, kaiseki the designer pontificates at a party to add value a...

Isaku takes a stand

›
It is so important for a person to take a stand for the music, or whatever else, he or she stands for. And Isaku really took a stand _ l...
‹
›
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.