Poetry by Nagae Yūki

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Nagae Yūki

Nagae Yūki (永方佑樹)'s first collection, Monosabishi no hana ("Lonesome Flowers"), received the 2012 Poetry and Thought Newcomer’s Award. Her most recent collection, √3 (2016), employs the language of trigonometry along with images from the worlds of geology, chemistry, and machinery. She studied classical Japanese literature at Keio University. English translations of her work have appeared in Tokyo Poetry Journal, U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, and Vestiges. She has recently been invited to Finland (Lahti Poetry Marathon, 2017), Taiwan (Asian Poetry Festival, 2017), the United States (The University of Iowa's “Japanese Poetry Now," 2018), and Tokyo (Summer Seminar Event 2018: The Institute for World Literature of Harvard University) for readings and poetry installation performances, which frequently involve collaborations with dancers, nature, original sound, and video art. She is developing this off-page poetic work around a concept she calls “Steric Poetry.”

Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar has published or edited over a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, including the Muse India award-winning Tamil translations of 9th century poet/saint, Andal, The Autobiography of a Goddess; the 2011 National Poetry Review Prize winner, Deepening Groove; and the 2005 Finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards, Instrumentality. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited W.W. Norton’s Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond, called “a beautiful achievement for world literature” by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. He has won a Pushcart Prize and a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and been featured in such venues as The New York Times, The Paris Review, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. He's appeared as a commentator on the BBC, the PBS Newshour, and National Public Radio, received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Corporation of Yaddo, and has taught and performed his work around the world, including at Columbia University, City University of Hong Kong, and Fairfield University. Founding editor of Drunken Boat, one of the world's oldest online journals, he holds a research fellowship from the University of Sydney and his Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems 1997-2017 has just been published with Recent Works Press.

Copyright (c) Nagae Yūki, 2016. English translation copyright (c) Ravi Shankar, 2019.