Translation
Since Fukushima is a collection of poems written by Wago Ryoichi and translated from Japanese by Judy Halebsky and Ayako Takahashi. The collection includes tweets …
April 23, 2022 | Filed under: Translation
Since Fukushima is a collection of poems written by Wago Ryoichi and translated from Japanese by Judy Halebsky and Ayako Takahashi. The collection includes tweets …
May 19, 2023 | Filed under: Recommended Reading
Robert Hass invited me to read in the Lunch Poems series at UC Berkeley. Soon after, I found myself as a visiting writer at Dokkyo …
May 12, 2023 | Filed under: Recommended Reading
A reading for Sixteen River’s anthology American, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience on September 20th, 2020, 4pm PDT/7pm EDT online.
May 5, 2023 | Filed under: Translation
Eki Mae is a bilingual poetry journal. From 2009–2011, Yuka Tsukagoshi, Ayumu Akutsu and I created and published three volumes of the journal. It has …
May 5, 2023 | Filed under: Teaching
This short class includes a close reading of Wei Ying-Wu’s poem Heartbreak at Our Old Dwelling, translated by Red Pine (In Such Hard Times, Port …
June 2, 2021 | Filed under: Recommended Reading
In June 2021, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson gave the Dominican MFA keynote lecture on her new and absolutely amazing book, Noopiming, The Cure for White Ladies. …
April 23, 2021 | Filed under: Craft Talks, Teaching
I gave a Bagley Wright Lecture, From Haiku to Collage: a Body-Based Poetics in Seattle at the Hugo House. I had just hiked Dewa Sanzan …
January 7, 2021 | Filed under: Recommended Reading
After the chaos in Washington D.C. yesterday with what- an insurrection, a coup, a stand against democracy? I’ve been asked to speak today about what …
May 21, 2020 | Filed under: Low Res MFA, Narrative Medicine, Teaching
In our low res MFA program at Dominican University we have an optional track in Narrative Medicine. This is broadly conceived as writing about health …
May 9, 2020 | Filed under: Marin Poetry Center Writing Retreat, Writing Prompt
Meditation on Vulnerability by Dean Rader, published in the Harvard Review My son in his sleep slipsinto the little boat of his dream the waves …