Featured Poet Fumiko Yamanaka (1912-1936)
edited by Yuka Tsukagoshi, Judy Halebsky & Ayumu Akutsu
by Alan Botsford
If Japan’s poetic voices as enunciated by the four (contemporary & modern) poets in the pages of this new poetry journal are to be transformative, then Eki Mae vol. 1 arrives in the form of an annunciation, the miracle which, once spoken, cannot be quieted. What these poets, in both Japanese and English, pour into the individual reader as seminal words may, as with all poetry, take root and blossom, or it may, on the other hand, wither and dry up… Readiness is all: the right poem and the right reader, the right place and the right time. Eki Mae.
Eki Mae Vol. 1
Featured Poet Fumiko Yamanaka (1912-1936)
Yuka Tsukagoshi
Judy Halebsky
Ayumu Akutsu
Contact: ekimae.poems@gmail.com
