Goro Takano Reading plus Open Mic

Goro Takano, from Japan, will be our featured writer in August.

Born in the city of Hiroshima, Japan, Goro Takano is a Japanese poet living now in Japan. His past poetry collections published through BlazeVOX (New York) are Responsibilities of the Obsessed (2013), Silent Whistle-Blowers (2015), Non Sequitur Syndrome (2018), and Sunday Double Suicide (2022). On Lost Sheep, Takano’s translation of the works of the Japanese modernist poet Shiro Murano, was published in 2017 through Tinfish (Honolulu). Takano’s first Japanese-only poetry collection Nichiyo-bi no Shinju (‘Sunday Double Suicide), his second Japanese-only one Hyaku-nen Tattara Aimasho (‘Why Don't We Meet Again a Hundred Years Later?’) and his third Japanese-only one Kishi to Kofu (‘Knight and Miners’) were all published through Karan-sha (Fukuoka, Japan) in 2019, 2021, and 2024. respectively.

We'll have our usual Open Mic - in which you are all warmly invited to participate.

Members $10
Non-Members $15
Payable at the door, cash or card

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• Next Friday, 20th June, 06:30 pm, Owen Bullock Reading plus Open Mic in Wagga Wagga
• Next Saturday, 21st June, 02:00 pm, June Writing Workshop in Wagga Wagga

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