Festival of Contemporary Japanese Women Poets

Sponsored by Belladonna*, Poets House, Litmus Press, and Bowery Poetry Club
A special feature of Factorial/PennSound collection of Japanese Poetry

Four poets at the forefront of Japanese poetry - Takako Arai, Kiriu Minashita, Kyong-Mi Park & Ryoko Sekiguchi - join poets Cole Swensen, Sawako Nakayasu and Rosa Alcala for a thought-provoking array of readings and talks in New York.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 @ Poets House

A panel discussion with Takako Arai, Kiriu Minashita, Sawako Nakayasu, Kyong-Mi Park & Ryoko Sekiguchi
Recording and sound editing by Austin Publicover.

1. Introduction by Stephen Motika (2:09): MP3
2. Introduction by Rachel Levitsky (2:17): MP3
3. Introduction by the poets (3:05): MP3
4. Sekiguchi leads off the discussion (16:21): MP3
5. Minashita in discussion (16:41): MP3
6. Sekiguchi continues (12:50): MP3
7. Nakayasu continues (14:33): MP3
8. Arai: When the Moon Rises (6:43): MP3
9. Sekiguchi: Word of Silence (5:04): MP3
10. Park: A Cat Comes Carrying Her Baby Cat In Her Mouth (8:28): MP3
11. Minashita: Sonic Peace (4:50): MP3
12. Q & A with audience and panelists (13:21): MP3

Thursday, November 16, 2006 @ Bowery Poetry Club

Book release party for Four from Japan: Contemporary Poetry by Women

with readings by Takako Arai, Kiriu Minashita, Kyong-Mi Park & Ryoko Sekiguchi
Recording and sound editing by Austin Publicover.

1. Intro Part I by Nakayasu (1:58): MP3
2. Intro Part II by Nakayasu (1:23): MP3
3. Nakayasu introduces 'For Amenouzume-San' (1:21): MP3
4. Arai: For Amenouzume-san (5:27): MP3
5. Arai: Fox Appearing - Japanese (4:16): MP3
6. Arai: Fox Appearing - English (2:00): MP3
7. Nakayasu introduces 'Eh-Janaika' (0:50): MP3
8. Arai: Raising the Billows (4:09): MP3
9. Arai: Eh-Janaika, Eh-Janaika (in English) (3:56): MP3
10. Nakayasu introduces Minashita (2:33): MP3
11. Minashita: Sonic Peace (6:19): MP3
12. Minashita: Border Z / Delete, and Rewrite (6:35): MP3
13. Minashita: poem and song (4:05): MP3
14. Nakayasu introduces Park (2:52): MP3
15. Park: April (5:27): MP3
16. Park: Weather Patterns; Instrument; The Hat Says (5:20): MP3
17. Nakayasu introduces Sekiguchi (3:30): MP3
18. Sekiguchi: from Heliotropes (6:27): MP3
19. Sekiguchi: more from Heliotropes (7:21): MP3
20. Closing Remarks by Rachel Levitsky (1:02): MP3

Friday, November 17, 2006 @ Poets House

Blurring the Boundaries: A Conversation on the Art of Poetry and Translation

with Rosa Alcala, Ryoko Sekiguchi and Cole Swensen
Recording and sound editing by Austin Publicover.

1. Stephen Motika (5:21): MP3
2. Rosa Alcala (6:34): MP3
3. Ryoko Sekiguchi and Nicholas Veroli (10:06): MP3
4. Cole Swensen (6:11): MP3
5. Discussion Part 1 (4:33): MP3
6. Discussion Part 2 (12:20): MP3
7. Discussion Part 3 (41:33): MP3

This event was a launch for:

Four From Japan: an Anthology of Contemporary Poetries

published by Belladonna* and Litmus.

drawings by
Mimi Gross