Japanese

Nanao Sakaki performs poems and songs in the courtyard of the Poetry Center on Cherry Avenue. Asking the audience, "Any questions? I'll answer by my poems," Sakaki addresses themes raised by audience members such as anger, feeling at home, time, walking, and love for the desert and all forms of life.

Kimiko Hahn reads from Toxic Flora (2010) and Brain Fever (2014). This reading was given as part of the Spectacular Poetics series. 

Sawako Nakayasu gives a performance of poetry and translations, including both uncollected work and work published in Mouth: Eats Color (2011), The Ants (2014), and from Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From (2017). 

A playlist of tracks by poets who perform in two or more languages.