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Poetry Reading: Ken Yoshikawa and Alone Featuring Company
Ken Yoshikawa is the author of Monster Colored Glasses, and Alone Featuring Company's brand new chapbook is Winter Bird. Ken will also be reading selections from Chinese poet Belle Ling's new collection from Tupelo Press, Nebulous Vertigo. Belle was originally scheduled to headline this event but has canceled her American tour due to border safety concerns.
About Ken Yoshikawa's Monster Colored Glasses:
Monster Colored Glasses is a timeless quest to transcend into adulthood unfolding in our tumultuous crux of history. Through his quest the poet and reader both will scale the broken branches of a family tree, brave the burrows of abandonment, abuse, and racism, and traverse morasses of toxic masculinity all in search of understanding, acceptance, and a greater kindness for ourselves and others. To read these pages leads to many treasures, but while the rewards may be great, be warned: here there be monsters.
Ken Yoshikawa (he/him) is a Japanese American actor, poet, and playwright based in Portland, Oregon. Ken is a resident artist at The Historic Alberta House and an alumnus of the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble's (PETE) Intensive Creative Process (ICP) program. He has completed two playwriting commissions: We Wrote This With You In Mind for Shaking the Tree Theatre and From a Hole in the Ground for Corrib Theatre, the latter of which earned him a finalist nomination for the Oregon Book Awards. Beyond his artistic pursuits, Ken loves to watch anime, practice astrology, take walks in the trees, and be with friends.
About Alone Featuring Company's Winter Bird:
Winter Bird is the embodiment of Alone Featuring Company's migration from the decay of ideals and expectations...to their rebirth of self. The poems cover many topics, including parental mental illness, separation, generational trauma, and racial anguish, until finally nesting us in resiliency.
Alone Featuring Company is a spoken word artist hailing from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Since childhood, they have been enamored with Button Poetry, Write About Now and all things slam poetry. They are the current Grand Slam Champion (2025) and will be representing Slamlandia at the Bigfoot Regional Slam in July. They got to represent Portland Poetry in 2024 and do not plan to stop anytime soon. You can check out their new Chapbook Winter Bird and their work on Instagram at @AloneFeaturingCompany.
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