EMOL Arizona
Cultural Events & Activities
San Xavier
del Bac, Tucson
Celebrating 200 Years
NEW! Western
Music Festival
Tucson, Arizona November 12-16, 1997
Arizona Humanities Council Awarded Grant
To Conduct Reading Series
The Arizona Humanities Council has received a grant from the Lannan Foundation
to conduct a reading series as part of the "Transforming Barbed Wire"
project, which will examine the forced removal and mass detainment in the
United States of 120,000 American citizens and permanent resident aliens
of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
The Reading Series will feature four Japanese American writers who were
themselves detained in internment camps. The writers include fiction writer
Hisaye Yamamoto DeSoto (17 Syllables and Other Stories), poet Lawson Fusao
Inada (Legends from Camp), poet Mitsuye Yamada (Camp Notes and Other Poems),
and playwright Wakako Yamauchi (Songs My Mother Taught Me).
Yamamoto DeSoto, Inada, Yamada, and Yamauchi will read from their works
and sign books at the Phoenix Public Library on February 14,1998.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information about the Reading Series or the "Transforming
Barbed Wire" project, contact Rick Noguchi at the Arizona Humanities
Council, 602/257-0335.
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