Tokyo Poetry Journal: volume 10

Collection of contemporary poetry and poetry related writing in, out of, about, or not at all relating to Tokyo.

CONTENTS:

EDITOR'S LETTER

OSHIMA TAKEO, translated by JORDAN A. Y. SMITH

The Life of God

MARCO HARNAM KAISTH

All Seasons

The Construction of Simple Finite Groups

DURELL SMITH Forbearance Come Warmth Maybe in the Pacific

JASON SCUDERI: We Are All Upside-Down

EUGENE RYAN Bullet Train, Tokyo

KEIJIRO SUGA My Watermelon Days

LEAH ANN SULLIVAN Notes from the COVID-19 Cocoon

ACOCHUA, translated by JORDAN A. Y. SMITH

pa・tic・spaghetti theme song

TODD SILVERSTEIN Fugue

STEVEN KARL

Untitled Blue #9 Untitled Blue #12

K. V. TWAIN Iriomotensis

SASA/MARIE, translated by JORDAN A. Y. SMITH

Inside My Ears

ALJAZ KOPRIVNIKAR To Rosa Luxemburg

GALE ACUFF The Death of Me

CARL WALSH Niseko miso

NORA KIRKHAM Morning Crows

MICHELLE EGAN Mountain of Souls

HIRATA TOSHIKO, translated by ERIC E. HYETT & SPENCER THURLOW

Is it April?

Is it June?

Is it July Again?

Is it August Again?

Is it September Again?

Is it October Again?

POLCHATE (JAM) KRAPRAYOON

Cassandra, a Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love During the Anthropocene

CYNTHIA ABDALLAH

Ulale ngoxolo madiba When the heavens go dark

DAH Fragment No. 7

ALAN PRICE Prostitute, Peasant, and Princess

JOY WALLER

How to Be a Human

Spring Visions: Tokyo 2020

CHAY CANCERAN 02: in a dance

MICHAEL FRAZIER

In Response to "The way you write about Black death is clich?." In Response to "What takes you so long to reply to my messages?" Eastern Standard Time; Japan Standard Time

JOHN SOLT untitled

JEFFREY JOHNSON The Coronation

TAYLOR MIGNON

Top Ten of Japanese Poetry

The Value of Poetry in the Time of Emergency

BARBARA ROETHER & TAYLOR MIGNON Pandemic with Crows & Crowds

JEFFREY JOHNSON, TAYLOR MIGNON, BARBARA SUMMERHAWK T(aylor)P(arpara)J(effrey) in Collaboration

HACHIKAI MIMI, translated by KYOKO YOSHIDA

Now

Sweet

RYO MICHICO, translated by HANA PIVINSKAYA & MIDEKI FERNANDO Excerpt from What Overflowed Was Kindness

RICHARD MILNER reviews Yamaguchi Tsutomu

DAVID COZY reviews Meg Eden, Keijiro Suga, and Yoko Danno

XIAO YUE SHAN reviews Kiriu Minashita

INKA PIIRONEN: Ten Years of TPJ