José Natsuhara
José Natsuhara is a Nikkei poet from Lima, Peru, director of the poetry and humanities platform Tríada Primate . He is director of the Total Collection of Peruvian Poetry: Map of Peru . Chief Curator at PRIMERA LÍNEA: Curated Catalog of International Poetry . And gallerist at GASB: Sam Bellamy Art Gallery. He hosts the programs Podcast Primate, PIENSAPRIMATE and Al Aboraje!. He has studied Philosophy, has specializations in Electrotechnics and British English, and is currently studying Psychology. He is a professor of aesthetic philosophy at the Isla Tortuga Educational Interzone and director of Filoso: Avant-garde Philosophy Colloquium. He has published: The magazine Monologue (2009), the magazine Primate (2017-current), the fanzine a-ISLA(miento) (2020-current), and the collections of poems Oh! Shotgun-Head God (second edition, 2020) and La Guerrilla Elegante (second edition, 2020). His work has been published in Bolivia in the personal anthology Metaphysical keys that open unsuspected legs (2018).
Last updated August 2022
Stories from This Author
Burst
Aug. 18, 2022 • José Natsuhara , traci kato-kiriyama
This month, again with the help of my partner's mother (a Nikkei artist born and raised in Peru), I came to appreciate this poem for its intensity, written by Lima, Peru-based Nikkei poet José Natsuhara. Strong imagery abounds throughout this poem, full of impressive images, from the everyday to a supernatural coming of age... A poem on the attack. Enjoy... —traci kato-kiriyama * * * * * José Natsuhara is a Nikkei poet from Lima, Peru, director of the poetry …
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