EVENTS & READINGS
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UPCOMING EVENTS are now updated here.
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2018
⚫︎ Saturday, January 20, 2018, 4:30-6:30
Reading with Julia Bloch
⚫︎ Monday, February 19
⚫︎ Thursday, March 22
University of Arizona Poetry Center
2017
⚫︎ Thurs-Sat, October 19-21
Tucson, Arizona
Thinking Its Presence Conference
⚫︎ Fri-Sun, October 27-29
ASA/P Conference
⚫︎ Friday, October 27 at 8 PM – 10 PM
644 40th St, Oakland, CA 94609
with Tonya M. Foster, Angela Hume, ASSamia Rahimtoola, MG Roberts, Jennifer Scappettone, Lindsay Turner, Stephanie Young
⚫︎ Tuesday, November 14, 6pm
VOCARIUM READING SERIES – with Eleni Sikelianos & Monica de la Torre
Woodberry Poetry Room
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
⚫︎ Monday, December 4, 7-9pm
And/With Litmus: Myung Mi Kim, Sawako Nakayasu, & Jai A. Ravine
Abron Arts Center
2018
⚫︎ Saturday, January 20, 2018, 4:30-6:30
Reading with Julia Bloch
⚫︎ Monday, February 19
⚫︎ Thursday, March 22
University of Arizona Poetry Center
AWP 2014
Seattle, WA
February 26 — March 2, 2014
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PANEL:
★ Ring of Fire, New Creations: Translations on the Pacific Rim I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women.
Sawako Nakayasu, Prageeta Sharma, Neil Aitken, Karen An-hwei Lee (Moderator)
Thursday, February 27
1:30-2:45 PM
Location: Room LL5, Western New England MFA Annex, Lower Level
BOOK SIGNING:
Friday, February 28
1:00 – 2:00 PM
Location: Les Figues tables K9 and K10 at the bookfair
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OFF-SITE READINGS:
Thursday, February 27
7:00-10:00 PM
Burnside Review, Four Way Books, Canarium Books, and Lana Turner Reading
Other authors reading: Ed Skoog, Ralph Angel, Jeff Alessandrelli, Paula Cisewski, David J. Daniels, Brian Komei Dempster, Karen Brennan, Joy Katz, Ish Klein, Tod Marshall, Christopher Mattison, Richard Greenfield, Sara Deniz Akant, and Jessica Laser
Location: Freemont Abbey Arts Center, 4272 Fremont Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103
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Friday, February 28
7:00 PM
Drunken Boat, Les Figues, Ugly Duckling, Ahsahta Reading
Authors also reading: Chris Tysh, Melissa Buzzeo, Laura McCullough, Alvin Pang, L.S. Klatt, Diana Thow, Kathleen Jesme, David Bartone, Stephanie Strickland, Phil Cordelli, Lilly Brown, Michael Ruby
Location: The Alibi Room, 85 Pike Street #410 (in Post Alley), Seattle, WA 98101
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PAST EVENTS
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Saturday, March 2, 13:30-16:55
TV appearance! On Japanese TV (日テレ)as a poetry judge on a game show.
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Chicago, Illinois
Feb 29 — March 3, 2012
PANELS:
★ I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women.
Vanessa Place, Bhanu Kapil, Mónica de la Torre, Sawako Nakayasu, Rosmarie Waldrop
Friday, March 2nd, 3:00-4:15
Grand Ballroom, Palmer House Hilton, 4th Floor
★ Writers and the Moving Image: Off the Page.
Annie Guthrie, Claudia Rankine, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Dan Waber, Sawako Nakayasu
Thursday, March 1st, 4:30-5:45
Lake Michigan, Hilton Chicago, 8th Floor
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Poetry Reading
The Poetry Project, NYC
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 – 8pm
★ Reading with Charles Alexander
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The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University
Thursday, March 8, 4:30pm
The Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU (free admission)
★ Reading & talking on translations from contemporary Japanese poetry
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Poetry Reading
Saturday, March 10, 7:30pm
Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street
$10
★ Reading with Michael Cross
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Queensland Poetry Festival
★ Brisbane, Australia
August 26-28, 2011
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INSECT COUNTRY F: Structured Improvisation with Dance and Poetry
Whenever Wherever Festival 2011
8/4/2011, 19:00, ¥1500
★ Featuring: Chico Katsube (dance), Shoko Kashima (dance), Kiriu Minashita (poetry), Mimi Hachikai (poetry), Yoko Ishiguro (insect), Hirokazu Kouchi (human).
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Wednesday March 30, 5pm
LOUNGE #18 Reading
Old Government House Lounge
★ University of Auckalnd City Campus
Princes St and Waterloo Quadrant
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March 9, 2011 3-4pm University of Auckland, Department of English, Seminar
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AWP conference, 2011
Washington DC
★ Innovations, Migrations, and Translations: Contemporary Poetry in Tokyo
with Judy Halebsky, Kyong-Mi Park, Yuka Tsukagoshi, Mariko Nagai, Holly Thompson
…plus various offsite events
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Sunday, October 10, 2010 2pm
★ Interlingual Poetry Reading
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
★ a re-staging of Yvonne Rainer’s Grand Union Dreams, directed by Yelena Gluzman
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Sunday, October 17, 2010 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Les Figues Auction (donation)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
★ My piece called “Tree root that I put in a frame” is for sale at this auction.
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Wednesday, October 27 & Friday, October 29, 2010
Hiyoshi Poetry Festival 2010 – Keio University
★ with Forrest Gander, Nomura Kiwao, Franck Villain, and Mariko Nagai
Wed 10/27, 4:30-6pm: Contemporary Poetry Performance Workshop
Fri 10/29, 6-8pm Poetry Reading
please contact toiawase-lib@adst.keio.ac.jp for more information
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
3pm
★ Insect Orchestra
LACE (Los Angeles)
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
2:30 pm
McCormack Family Theater
70 Brown St.
★ Brown University
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
6:30 pm
★ NYC
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
4-6pm
Performance featuring:
Sawako Nakayasu
Marco Antonio Huerta
Christine Wertheim