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VISITORS MAY NEED TO REFRESH THIS PAGE TO SEE THE MOST RECENT POSTING...] KJ News Updates
April
17: Announcing
an interview
with our multi-talented Fiction Editor Leza Lowitz, by Suzanne Kamata, appears
this month at the Women
on Writing (WOW) website. January 14th: Message from old friend of KJ & way-back contributor Sidney Atkins: Finally
I've gotten around to posting the 5th Chapter of "Six Records of
a Floating LIfe", this installment titled "Mountains and Rivers
Without End". Here's the address:  December
24th:
We are delighted to welcome Lois P. Jones as a contributing
editor. In particular, she will be helping poetry editor Patricia Donegan
to make poetry a stronger and more diverse element in KJ. Lois was born
in Chicago, Illinois and currently lives in Glendale, California. Her poetry
has been published in state quarterlies, anthologies, ezines and internationally
in Argentina’s Los Andes – and in KJ. She is co-editor
of A
Chaos of Angels and the founder of Word
Walker Press. In 2006 she co-wrote The Miracle of Mendoza,
a three-part series documenting Argentina’s wine industry. Lois has
workshopped under Mark Doty, Matthew Sweeney, Paul Muldoon and others at
the annual San Miguel Poetry Week in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. You
can find her as co-host at Moonday’s monthly poetry reading in Pacific
Palisades, California and hear her poetry in recent and upcoming interviews
on Poet’s Cafe, a Pacifica
Radio broadcast in Southern California. (Her
most recent reading/interview here:
scroll down to Poet's Corner, Dec. 26th 12:00 noon; includes 'Father' which
appeared in KJ #66).
December 9th: Again this year we were pleased to be invited by the Pushcart Prize to nominate six articles (by US writers) published in KJ during the last year. The final selection was as follows: 1. "Siddartha and the Great Bird" – Heinz Insu Fenkl, KJ#65 2. "Little Soman's Little War" – Keith Harmon Snow, KJ#67 3. "A Day and a Half of Freedom" – (Tr.) Ralph McCarthy, KJ#66 4. "Nakahara Chuya & the Art of Translation" – (Tr.) Christian Nagle & Ry Beville, KJ#66 5. "Origami Lion" – Jacob Adelman, KJ#67 6. "The things we've been through together" – Gail Gutradt, KJ#68 November 8th: Singapore-based KJ Contributing Editor Vinita Ramani sent photos of her recent wedding. click on photos to enlarge...
October 19th: We're delighted to announce that KJ has been nominated again, for the 11th successive year, for the annual Utne Independent Press Awards: UTNE
READER ANNOUNCES THE NOMINEES FOR 19th ANNUAL UTNE INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARDS
2007
Kyoto
Journal #66 Release Event An extract from his co-authored EXILE–Conversations with Pramoedya Ananta Toer is featured in KJ #6. Andre also the author of a political novel, Point of No Return and a book of non-fiction endorsed by Noam Chomsky: Western Terror - From Potosi To Baghdad.  Late-breaking News....Congratulations! Preston Keido Houser (a long-time KJ contributing editor) received his shihan from Yoshio Kurahashi-sensei of the Muju-an Shakuhachi Dojo, February 24, 2007, Kyoto, Japan. Preston writes: "I
performed two pieces, one at the beginning of the recital and another
at the conclusion. The first was a Zen piece which I performed solo, “Muju
Shin Kyoku” which could be translated as the “song of the
heart/mind with no abode.” I also performed the concluding piece,
“Tamagawa.” with three shamisen musicians: Kimiko Hayashi,
Chieko Iwasaki, and Ikuko Sakai. I performed with Hayashi-sensei in my
very first recital over twenty years ago and I was honored to perform
with her again." Feb 28: Announcing a new Asian news source: Asiana Press Agency "While
many people of good conscience are decrying the growing media consolidation
in the hands of a few and the correlating dearth of truly progressive
voices, the founders of Asiana decided to take concrete steps to do something
about it. The agency exists to promote writers, filmmakers and photographers
who are firmly committed to a progressive ethos, and are willing to utilize
their talents in its furtherance. Editorial
Director Andre Vltchek is a novelist, journalist, filmmaker,
and cofounder of Mainstay
Press publishing house for political fiction. His recent
books include the novel, Point
of No Return, and a book of political essays, Western
Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad. Mr. Vltchek also produced
a 90-minute documentary film about Suharto's dictatorship and its impact
on present-day Indonesia, Terlena
- Breaking of a Nation.  Jan 29: We are delighted to welcome Leza Lowitz on board as KJ fiction editor, and Jenny Hall, as a contributing editor. Leza was born in San Francisco and grew up in Berkeley, California. She has a B.A. in English Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She first made her way to Tokyo in 1989, where she worked as a freelance writer/editor for The Japan Times and Asahi Evening News, as an art critic for Art in America, and as a lecturer at Rikkyo and Tokyo University. After almost a decade in California, Lowitz relocated to Tokyo in 2003, where she opened Sun and Moon Yoga. She has long been connected with Kyoto Journal; readers may remember her appearance in “They Who Render Anew,” our first In Translation feature, and her poems in #53. Lowitz has published over 14 books, including the best-selling Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By (Stone Bridge Press), which was just issued in paperback. Most recently, she has published a collection of short stories, Green Tea to Go (Printed Matter Press), and co-authored Designing with Kanji: Japanese Character Motifs for Surface, Skin & Spirit (Stone Bridge Press) with Shogo Oketani, and Sacred Sanskrit Words: For Yoga, Chant and Meditation (Stone Bridge Press) with Reema Datta. She also edited The Japan Journals 1947-2004 by Donald Richie (Stone Bridge Press). She has published six books of co-translations, including the award-winning anthologies of contemporary Japanese women's poetry, A Long Rainy Season and Other Side River (Editor, Stone Bridge Press). Together with Oketani, she translated modernist poet Ayukawa Nobuo’s America and Other Poems (forthcoming, Kaya Press, 2007), for which they received the 2003 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature from the Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture at Columbia University. Lowitz is the recipient of numerous honors for her poetry, fiction, and translations, including the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Best Book of Poetry and The Bay Area Independent Publisher’s Association Award for Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. She has received an individual Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a California Arts Council Individual Fellowship in Poetry, an Independent Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Other honors include the Copperfield’s Dickens Fiction Award, the Barbara Deming Memorial Award in the Novel, the Tokyo Journal Fiction  translation
award, the Japanophile Fiction Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award for Editorial
Excellence, the Tokyo Journal Fiction Translation Award, and two Pushcart
Prize nominations in Poetry. Lowitz served as Reviews Editor for Manoa
journal for over a decade and edited two anthologies of Japanese literature
for Manoa. She can be reached at www.lezalowitz.com
and www.sunandmoon.jp.
Jenny Hall, a Kansai resident from Australia, joins us as contributing editor – having already provided articles and fine photos from her extensive Asian portfolio. An Osaka-based travel writer and photographer, Jenny is currently the travel editor for Kansai Time Out magazine. As a member of the Kansai International Photographers’ Association, she has taken part in two group exhibitions, PEACEworks, (November at Kyoto Sangyo University, and December 2005 at Kyoto International Community House), and SLOW, (June 2006, Gallery Prinz). More of her photographs can be found at http://jenny-hall.smugmug.com Jan 28:KJ #65 has been mailed out to contributors and subscribers. See our Current Issue page for full content details. Sincere thanks to all who helped to make it happen! In Japanese bookstores soon, and to be released in the US in early March. DEC.
7: Again this
year we were invited by the Pushcart
Prize to nominate six articles (by US writers) published
in KJ during the last year. The final selection was as follows:
NOV.
26: UNBOUND
LAUNCHED NOV 25th IN KYOTO Photos from Albie Sharpe and Stewart Wachs here, and more, from Paul Crouse, here, Matthias Ley, here, Micah Gampel, here and Jenny Hall, here.
Party
organizers Sally McLaren (special issue editor)
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