Tokyo Poetry Journal is a biannual publication of poetry, art, reviews, and criticism. Bringing poetry to, through, and from the Tokyo world of words and sound since 2015. TPJ also offers book launch events to bring the contents of each issue alive by presenting poets and artists featured in the issue. The house band ToPoJo Toasters provides music and improvises with poets who’d like accompaniment.
The most recent issue, Vol. 6 “Butoh and Poetry” features poetry and translations by Peter Cole, Yoshimasu Gōzō, Daniela Camacho, Takiguchi Shūzō, John Solt, Kō Murobushi, Nada Gordon, Morgan Gibson, Terayama Shūji, Tamara Ikkō, John Gribble, Paul Hullah, Ikegami Naoya, Marc Sebastian-Jones, Edward Levinson, A. Robert Lee, Huw Lloyd, Taylor Mignon, Naka Tarō, Andrew Houwen and Nihei Chikako, Peter Robinson, Masaya Saito, Xiao Yue Shan, Jordan A. Y. Smith, Barbara Summerhawk, Tanabe Shin, Tian Yuan, Josefa Vivancos-Hernández, Zoria April, Abul Kalam Azad, Ira Cohen.
Essays/comments by Ohno Kazuo, Motofuji Akiko, Rosemary Candelario, Andrew Gebert, and Joff Bradley, and and interview with Kudo Taketeru by Joan Anderson.
Photography is by Ainhoa Valle (cover) and Morgan Fisher.
Reviews in this TPJ issue:
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Jordan A. Y. Smith on Tatsumi Hijikata’s Costume en face: A Primer of Darkness for Young Boys and Girls (notebook written by Moe Yamamoto, translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu, edited by Yelena Gluzman)
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Tanya Barnett on Poet to Poet: Contemporary Women Poets From Japan (edited by Rina Kikuchi and Jen Crawford)
- Joy Waller on Masaya Saito’s Snow Bones.
Read a review of Masayo Saito’s Snow Bones in Vol. 6 of the Tokyo Poetry Journal