Artist Event: "Get Lost in Tokyo: Landscape Poems" AIR 3331 Open Studio

This is a preview of poems-in-progress. The poems document the feeling of getting lost as dualistic (losing one's self in a landscape + fears of being told to "go away"). At the same time, the poems resist dualistic perceptions, documenting shared connections, vulnerable interactions, and taking risks.
Period: June 28 (Fri)
Hours: 18:00-20:00
Admission: Free
Venue：AIR 3331 Iwamotocho Studio 3F 301 (Address: 3-6-8 Iwamotocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo）

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▼Residency Information

Residence Plan
During the residency period, I will experiment with visual poems. The visual components will borrow from maps and signage. The two primary goals are 1) honoring what it means to be present or mindful in a specific locale, allowing that presence to sharpen what is observed, heard, and felt in urban, suburban, or pastoral settings; and 2) pushing the limits of how poems might appear on the page, trusting wherever the paths of everyday conversations and artistic exchanges may lead.

Artist Profile
1) Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, 2022
2) Will Eisner Award, Marvel Comics, 2018
3) Tammis Day Professor of Poetry, Smith College

Base of Activity: Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Media Used: Pen and ink

Yona Harvey is the author of "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love", which received the 2020 Award in Poetry from The Believer magazine. "Hemming the Water", her first book of poems, was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award from Claremont Graduate University and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award. She received the Inaugural Lucille Clifton Legacy Award in Poetry from St. Mary's College of Maryland and has served as Poet In Residence for the Queensland Poetry Festival in Brisbane, Australia.