Haiku North America is proud to announce that Mitsuye Yamada, Orange County poet, retired English Professor, Japanese-American activist and feminist, will speak at Haiku North America on Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
The founder of Multicultural Women Writers of Orange County and author of two books of poetry, Camp Notes and Other Poems and Desert Run: Poems and Stories, Yamada will talk about her father, Jack Kaichiro Yasutake and his Senryu Kai in Seattle, as well as the poetry group he organized during a WWII internment camp in New Mexico, and a senryu group he formed in Chicago after the war.
She will read some of Yasutake's senryu and talk about the great impact her early exposure to poetry has had on her life.
For other schedule highlights, please see our complete schedule: http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/uploads/6/8/9/2/6892517/hna2013-schedule.pdf
The founder of Multicultural Women Writers of Orange County and author of two books of poetry, Camp Notes and Other Poems and Desert Run: Poems and Stories, Yamada will talk about her father, Jack Kaichiro Yasutake and his Senryu Kai in Seattle, as well as the poetry group he organized during a WWII internment camp in New Mexico, and a senryu group he formed in Chicago after the war.
She will read some of Yasutake's senryu and talk about the great impact her early exposure to poetry has had on her life.
For other schedule highlights, please see our complete schedule: http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/uploads/6/8/9/2/6892517/hna2013-schedule.pdf
Supported in part by Arts Council for Long Beach and the City of Long Beach
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