Translation
In a review in Tupelo Quarterly, Dave Seter writes, when ecopoetry succeeds in conveying both emotion and scientific detail, it achieves the remarkable: it remains …
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Process Note
When I visited Maw Shein Win’s graduate creative writing class at University of San Francisco, she asked me to write some notes on my writing …
Lunch Poems
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 …
America, We Call Your Name
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.
Eki Mae – Japanese English Poetry Journal
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 …
Writing Class – The Process of Observation
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 …
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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. …
From Haiku to Collage: a Body-Based Poetics
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 …
Poetry and Resistance
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 …
Narrative Medicine Journals and Resources
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 …