Genie Nakano
Genie Nakano is a poet/writer and dancer with a master’s degree in dance from University of California, Los Angeles. She currently teaches yoga and tanka at Gardena Japanese Cultural Center. She was born in 1948, in East Los Angeles, Boyle Heights, CA. She is widely published in international tanka journals and is a poet/columnist for The Rafu Shimpo. She has published four books of poetry: Enter the Stream, Storyteller, Colorful Lives, and Wings on a Silk Veil. She enjoys traveling the world but likes best to stay home with her family of dogs, cats, husband Hideki, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. For Genie, writing poetry, especially tanka, is like crying, laughing, hating, loving—other moments it’s taking a deep breath and letting it flow. Tanka is her way to unravel and appreciate life. It is her personal story and journey inward.
Updated February 2023
Stories from This Author
Flight
Feb. 16, 2023 • Genie Nakano , traci kato-kiriyama
South Bay-based poet/writer and dancer, Genie Nakano, lets us celebrate with her as she looks forward to releasing her latest book of poetry, Wings on a Silk Veil. The poems here show her inner light through pieces that are contemplative, open, and free—an honest exploration, from ancestors to an ever-changing body with a youthful heart. Thank you for this work and congratulations, Genie! —traci kato-kiriyama * * * * * Genie Nakano is a poet/writer and dancer with a master’s …
Appetite
Feb. 15, 2018 • Genie Nakano , Shō Tanaka , traci kato-kiriyama
This month we have some light and delicious, sweet yet evocative, precious to ephemeral moments through the words shared here by the lovely yogi and artist, Genie Nakano, who hails from the South Bay of Los Angeles, and by Shō Tanaka, a friend I met a few moons ago over in Toronto. Shō currently resides, in his words, “on Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ Territory (Victoria, British Columbia).” Enjoy. —traci kato-kiriyama * * * * * Genie Nakano is a poet/writer, dancer …
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