An honor and privilege to teach an introduction to the fourteenth century Tibetan genius Je Tsongkhapa’s great wisdom with Haruka Takahashi and Makoto Yamada assisting. Thanks to the great, attentive and intelligent students at Yoga Festival Yokohama.
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen is having a Yayoi Kusama show called “In Infinity” now. Some of our translations of Kusama’s confessional, epic poems are in the beautiful catalogue. Thank you!
TWO WRITERS’ TAKES ON INTERCULTURAL LOVE
Gaijin Pot takes on HERE COMES THE SUN in a look at intercultural love.
Four Stories Tokyo–Married to the Mob
Four Stories Tokyo–Married to the Mob. Launching our memoirs by four American women married to Japanese men who actually lived to tell the tale!
TeachingBooks.net
Shogo Oketani and I share the story behind writing the APALA award-winning YA novel, “Jet Black and the Ninja Wind” on this wonderful audio site featuring Maya Angelou, Neil Gaiman, Sherman Alexie, Andrea Pinkney, and so many of our heroes!
Jet Black & the Ninja Wind hits #1 on the Teen Martial Arts list
Jet Black & the Ninja Wind is a late bloomer, like me. It has been out two years and today it hit #1 on the Teen Martial Arts list. All 3 versions are on this list. As Jet says, “Gratitude.”
March 2016: Panelist, Annual Association of Writing Programs Conference
March 2016: Panelist, “Crossing Borders with Verse Novels,” Moderated by Holly Thompson. With Holly Thompson, Padma Venkatraman, Joyce Lee Wong. Annual Association of Writing Programs Conference. Los Angeles, California, USA.
November, Sharjah International Book Fair, Dubai
November. Invited Presenter. Sharjah International Book Fair, Dubai, UAE. With Shogo Oketani.
Los Angeles Yoga Magazine Summer Reads PIcks HCTS:
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