In March 2018, the Poetry Coalition will launch Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, its second annual programming initiative on a theme of social importance. Programs will include a range of events and publications that address issues including mass incarceration, transphobia, violence against people of color, and health and self-care.
Presented in collaboration by the International Center of Photography and the Poetry Society of America, in conjunction with the Poetry Coalition's "Poetry and the Body" theme, this two-part event brings together artists, scholars, poets, and photographers who draw on the history of Japanese incarceration during WWII and its archival, material evidence in their innovative practices. The following presentations are in conjunction with the exhibition Then They Came for Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, on view at ICP Museum through May 6, 2018.
Mar 27: Reading and Conversation
Poet Kimiko Hahn introduces an in-gallery reading by poet Christine Kitano, followed by a conversation between Kitano and photographer Kevin Miyazaki, moderated by Tom Ikeda, Executive Director of Densho, an organization dedicated to acquiring, preserving and disseminating oral histories and other artifactual materials around the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Free and open to the public.
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March 27, 6:30-8pm
International Center of Photography Museum
250 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
Mar 28: Performance and Panel
Julian Saporiti with Erin Aoyama present the immersive musical experience No-No Boy, followed by a presentation and discussion with poet Brandon Shimoda, photographer Paul Kitagaki, and scholar Bob Lee.
Free and open to the public.
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March 28, 6:30-8pm
International Center of Photography Museum
250 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America, ICP, and the Poetry Coalition.
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Poet Bios
Kimiko Hahn is an American poet and distinguished professor in the MFA program of Queens College, CUNY. She earned a BA from the University of Iowa and an MA in Japanese literature from Columbia University. Hahn is the author of nine books of poetry, including The Artist's Daughter (2002), Toxic Flora (2010), and Brain Fever (2014). Hahn is the winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the American Book Award, and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has also been award fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2016, Hahn was elected president of the Poetry Society of America.
Christine Kitano was born in Los Angeles, CA. Her mother is a first-generation immigrant from Korea, and her father is nisei (second-generation) Japanese American. Kitano earned an MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) from Syracuse University and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Texas Tech University. She is an assistant professor at Ithaca College where she teaches creative writing, poetry, and Asian American literature. Research interests include 20th and 21st century American poetry, Asian American literature, immigrant poetry, and critical theory. She is the author of the poetry collections Sky Country (BOA Editions) and Birds of Paradise (Lynx House).
Brandon Shimoda is a poet. His most recent books are Evening Oracle (Letter Machine Editions), which received the 2016 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America; its sequel, The Desert (forthcoming from The Song Cave); and his first book of nonfiction, an ancestral memoir called The Grave on the Wall (forthcoming from City Lights). He lives, for now, in the desert.
