Poetry Reading and Talk with Krystyna Dąbrowska and Yasuhiro Yotsumoto
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This event brings together two internationally active poets, who share their mindset as passionate travelers and their keen eyes in exploring and observing their environments through poetic language.
Polish poet Krystyna Dąbrowska is the EU fellow in this year’s Kyoto Writer’s Residency; Yasuhiro Yotsumoto is a Japanese poet, who has been living in Europe for long years and who has developed a broad and vivid creative network with poets from all over the world. The title of this event quotes a poem by Dąbrowska and poses the question, how poetry can sense and depict “The Other”, on a micro and macro scale.
During this event, Dąbrowska and Yotsumoto will read from their poetry, talk about poetic approaches to their “neighbours” and the potential of poetry in our current times. Along with the reading and talk, the Butoh Unit Yubusha will transform the poetry to the physical space and musician Hiroki Chiba will perform live on his contrabass.
Krystyna Dąbrowska
Warsaw-based Krystyna Dąbrowska, author of five volumes of poetry, is a celebrated literary figure in her home country, having won two of Poland’s most prestigious literary prizes: the Wisława Szymborska Award and the Kościelski Award (both in 2013), as well as the Literary Award of the Capital City of Warsaw (2019). Overseas, she received Pushcart Prize (2024), was a finalist for the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize (2022) and longlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry (2023). Her poems have been translated into more than 20 languages and have appeared in among others Harper's Magazine, Poetry, Threepenny Review and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.As a translator, she focused on translating Anglophone poets into Polish, including Nobel Laureate Louise Glück. She also regularly contributes to various cultural magazines as an essayist writing about poetry and art.
Yasuhiro Yotsumoto
Poet, Essayist, Translator. Born in 1959 in Osaka, Japan, Yasuhiro spent most of his writing career outside Japan, first 8 years in the US and the subsequent 26 years in Germany, all the while writing in his native Japanese language. He has published around 17 collections of poetry, 2 novels, and several volumes of translations, essays and literary criticisms. In 2020, Yasuhiro moved his main residence to Tokyo, where he teaches poetry in universities and regularly organizes Poetry Talks Live event in a live house in the Shinjuku district. He is a participant of the Iowa International Writing Program and Hong Kong International Writers’ Workshop both in 2023.
Yubusha
Yubusha is a performance unit centered around dancers Yuko and Keiko, and artist/dramaturg Suzuko.
They are involved in collaborative productions with a wide range of artists, including visual artists, musicians, poets, and researchers, and engage in creative activities that explore the ideas and spirituality of dance culture, including butoh and folk performing arts.
They create and explore the body as a form of prayer in the modern age.
Hiroki Chiba
Bassist/Composer
A musician who plays classical contrabass sound and atmospheric electronics. Up to now, he has released four solo albums. Above his own band Isolation Music Trio, he is a member of bands such as Hasunuma Shota Phil, Yugawa with Magic Band, Sangatsu, Sugadairo Trio. He is also active as a producer for arauchi yu (cero), Yugawa, Janis Crunch, etc., and arranged for cero, Luca Delphi and Furukawa, among others. As a live bassist, he works with UA, Shonen Yoshida, Marihiko Hara, Takuro Okada, Julia Shortreed, Takuma Watanabe, and others. With the Polish jazz trumpeter Tomasz Dabrowski's band “ad hoc”, he has released two albums.
https://linktr.ee/Hirokichiba
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