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 cliché." 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
