Monday Enrichment - Japanese Tanka Poetry and its key role in one Chicago Family

NANCY MATSUMOTO is a third-generation Japanese American writer and editor based in Toronto, with a BA in English literature from Pomona College. She writes about food and drink, agriculture, Japanese American culture, art, and history, and the environment. Her latest book is Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System.  MARIKO ARATANI was born in Nagoya, Japan. She is a Japanese instructor, translator/ editor, and graduate of Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku University of Fine Arts and Music and University of Wisconsin (MA). A former Japanese instructor at Fordham University in New York, her publications include “The Ink Dark Moon” and “White Flash Black Rain” . KYOKO MIYABE was born in Yokohama, Japan and received her Ph.D. in English Literature at Cambridge University, U.K. She is Chair of the Humanities and Science Department at School of Visual Arts, New York. As a practicing artist, she has exhibited in galleries and art institutions in New York and Philadelphia. 

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