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146 items
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Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets (ddr-densho-1024-37)
One of the earliest documentaries to broach the topic of Japanese American wartime incarceration, Mitsuye and Nellie profiles Asian American poets Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong, showing them reading their poetry, meeting their family and visiting the Minidoka and Angel Island sites. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American …
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I Told You So (ddr-densho-1024-1)
Poet Lawson Inada shows how growing up in Fresno, California influenced his writing. He visits Tule Lake, the largest of the American concentration camps, where Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were imprisoned during World War II. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: I Told You So. See this item …
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Letter from Richard Hugo to Teruo Tada (ddr-densho-540-168)
Letter to Teruo Tada including a poem that Richard Hugo wrote about him.
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"Drawing the Line" for Yosh Kuromiya (ddr-densho-122-557)
Typed poem by Lawson Fusao Inada, signed on last page. Poem was later published in 1997 in Inada's collection "Drawing the Line" published by Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, in 1997.
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Voice of Vashon (January 1, 1933) (ddr-densho-316-430)
Pauline Tanaka served as a Vashon correspondent for the Japanese American Courier, the first Japanese American newspaper published only in English. This New Year's poem, authored by Pauline Tanaka, was published in the Japanese American Courier on January 1, 1933, page 7.
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Poem written by Aiko Tanaka (ddr-densho-1007-992)
Aiko is Walter Tanaka's mother. Includes romaji version.