Christine Kitano
Christine Kitano is the author of the poetry collections Birds of Paradise (Lynx House Press) and Sky Country (BOA Editions), which won the Central New York Book Award and was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, Dumb Luck & other poems (Texas Review Press) won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. She is co-editor of They Rise Like a Wave (Blue Oak Press), an anthology of Asian American women and nonbinary poets. She is an associate professor in the Lichtenstein Center at Stony Brook University and also serves on the poetry faculty for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Updated July 2024
Stories from This Author
Recollections
July 18, 2024 • Christine Kitano , traci kato-kiriyama
This month, we are so delighted to feature poetry by writer and professor Christine Kitano, with two pieces from her latest chapbook Dumb Luck & other poems (Texas Review Press). Her pieces have us reflecting on the paths of the past that lead us to exactly where we are now, and the things we may hold in our bodies, our memories, despite the passage of time. I am excited that we get to feature Professor Kitano this month and look forward …
As we continue...
Dec. 16, 2021 • Christine Kitano , traci kato-kiriyama
What speaks as we continue on, through the generations or through a single moment we need to survive? What does that breath or utterance or silence sound like? In New York-based Professor Christine Kitano’s work that is shared with us here, we are treated to an urgency related to memory and a voice that expands beyond those moments—“...a story without an ending...” and all that allows us to continue. Her striking pieces here let us reflect on the breathlessness of …
Commemoration 150th Anniversary of Japanese in Hawaii: Honoring the Gannenmono King Kalakaua and the Issei Story
April 17, 2018 • Dennis M. Ogawa , Christine Kitano
The first group of Japanese arrived in Hawaii in 1868. This group is known as gannenmono, or, “first year men,” because they arrived in Honolulu in the first year of the reign of Emperor Meiji. This was a small group of about 149 laborers. Within three years working in the sugar plantations, most returned to Japan. Some went onto the mainland. About fifty remained. These gannenmono were truly the first Issei. One of the original immigrants was Sentaro Ishii. After …
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