Four Stories -- Osaka

The Four Stories Japan Summer '07 season will kick off in Osaka on Sunday, June 17, with "East and West: Tales from two hemispheres."

FEATURING prose readings from:

* Juliet Winters Carpenter, Kyoto professor; acclaimed translator of Ryotaro Shiba's The Last Shogun, Kobo Abe's Beyond the Curve, and Miyuki Miyabe's Shadow Family; and author of Seeing Kyoto
* Jessica Goodfellow, author of A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaos in the Heartland; recipient of the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize from The Beloit Poetry Journal and three-time Pushcart nominee, with work featured in Best New Poets 2006 and on Garrison Keillor’s NPR program The Writer’s Almanac
* Roland Kelts, Lecturer at the University of Tokyo; co-editor of the New York-based literary journal A Public Space; author of JapanAmerica; and writer with work in Zoetrope, Playboy, Doubletake, Salon, The Village Voice, Newsday, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and The Japan Times
* Lou Rowan, author of the story collection Sweet Potatoes and critical essays in The English Studies Forum and The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and editor of the Seattle-based journal Golden Handcuffs Review

Sunday, June 17, 2007

6-8:30pm (venue opens at 5; readings start @ 6)
Portugalia bar and grill
Nishi-Tenma 4-12-11, Umeda, Osaka
06-6362-6668

ADMITTANCE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Warmest regards,

Tracy Slater
Founder, Four Stories Boston & Four Stories Japan
www.fourstories.org


Download MP3s of past Four Stories readings

Signup for Four Stories mailing list

Travel Guide To Iran

Tags

poetry Osaka Tokyo fiction verse poetry reading Four Stories

Sightseeing in Kyoto

Book a hotel in Japan with Bookings

Japanese Fiction

Happi Coats

Osaka