Yuri Kageyama

Poet and writer. Her books: "The New and Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling Till Now" (Ishmael Reed Publishing Co.), "Peeling" (I. Reed Books). Published in "Y'Bird" "Pirene's Fountain" "Pow Wow" "Greenfield Review" "On a Bed of Rice" "San Francisco Stories" "KONCH" "Stories We Hold Secret" and many other anthologies and magazines. Read with Ishmael Reed. Shuntaro Tanikawa, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Isaku Kageyama, Winchester Nii Tete, Takenari Shibata, Seamus Heaney, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Geraldine Kudaka. Yoshiaki Tago directed "Talking TAIKO," a documentary of her readings. She is working on an oral history of Yoichi Watanabe, founder and leader of Amanojaku, a Tokyo taiko group where her son Isaku Kageyama is a principal drummer.

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