FUJI HUB
  • Books
    • Poetry >
      • We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan
      • GLYPH: Graphic Poetry = Trans. Sensory
      • Where I Was Born
      • Mother Said, I Want Your Pain
      • Cochlea
      • Silver Seasons of Heartache
      • Home, No Home
    • Translation >
      • of women
      • 09/09 : Nine Japanese Female Poets / Nine Heian Waka
    • Textbook >
      • Marvels
      • The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature
  • Graphic Poetry
    • What is Trans. Sensory
    • Gallery of Graphic Poems
    • Text Collage
    • Listen to graphic poems
    • 31 Facts about GLYPH
    • Warashibe Documentary >
      • First Erasure
      • First Found Poem
    • Study Guide >
      • Create a first graphic poem
      • How to Approach Image
      • line-breaks
      • Visual Erasure Poetry
  • Working On Gallery
    • Vol. 7 >
      • Irene Adler
      • Yuka Tsuchiya
      • Susan Preston
      • Camila Valladares
    • Vol. 6 >
      • Rosanna Young Oh
      • Rowena Federico Finn
      • Jesse Kercheval
      • Natalia Carrero
      • Genevieve Kaplan
      • Maggie Queeney
      • Katrina Bello
      • Heather Beardsley
    • Vol. 5 >
      • Lisa Schantl
      • Danielle Pieratti
      • Karla Van Vliet
      • m. mick powell
      • Lauren Ari
      • Robert Lifson
      • Marcello Sahea
      • Allan Haverholm
    • Vol. 4 >
      • Angela Quinto
      • Dennis Avelar
      • Anne McGrath
      • Francesca Preston
      • Kelsey Zimmerman
      • Lúcia Leão
      • Claire Bauman
      • Ann Hudson
    • Vol. 3 >
      • Tanja Softić
      • Kylie Gellatly
      • Ananda Lima
      • Lea Graham
      • Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
      • Ina Cariño
      • Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
      • Steven and Maja Teref
    • Vol. 2 >
      • Celia Bland and Kyoko Miyabe
      • Gail Goepfert and Patrice Boyer Claeys
      • Scoot Swain
      • Nancy Botkin
      • Amanda Earl
      • Meg Reynolds
      • Gretchen Primack
      • Frances Cannon
    • Vol. 1 >
      • Octavio Quintanilla
      • Luisa A. Igloria
      • Sarah Sloat
      • J. D. Schraffenberger
      • Natalie Solmer
      • Dara Yen Elerath
      • Kristen Renee Miller
      • Rodney Gomez
  • Translation
    • Conveyorize Art of Translation
    • Waka/Haiku Workshops
    • 和歌英訳
  • About

ABOUT


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Naoko Fujimoto was born, raised in Nagoya, Japan, and studied at Nanzan Junior College. She was an exchange student and received a B.A. and M.A. from Indiana University. Her poetry collections are "We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan", winner of C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award by C&R Press (2022), "Where I Was Born", winner of the editor's choice by Willow Books (2019), "Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory" by Tupelo Press (2021), and four chapbooks. She is a RHINO associate & translation editor and Tupelo Quarterly translation editor. She is a Bread Loaf Translation full scholarship recipient and the 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation. She is a first judge of Illinois Center for the Book: Illinois Emerging Writers Competition (2021 - current) and reviewer for the 2024 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows. Her first translation chapbook is available from Toad Press in the fall of 2024. Her full-length translation collection, "Of Women", is forthcoming from Tupelo Press.
Press Kit & 日本語
*Please note: Naoko Fujimoto does not have Twitter & Facebook.
*Her Working On Gallery has an Instagram account.

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Rome, 2023

Published Works

Recent work appears or is forthcoming in:

Tupelo Press, 2026
"of women"

The Toad Press International Chapbook Series
"09/09 : Nine Japanese Female Poets / Nine Heian Waka"


​​​*RHINO Reads Curator
​*RHINO Reviews & TUPELO Quarterly Interview Contributor

2025
Consequence
  • Poem - "Generational Scars"
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Toad Press, Pasadena, 2025
2024
Circumference
  • Waka Translation - Nukata no Ōkimi - Man’yōshū, No.4 – 488
  • Waka Translation - Nukata no Ōkimi - Man'yōshū, No.1 - 8​
Faultline
  • Waka Translation - Prince Motoyoshi (元良親王), 百人一首 No.20​
The Nature of Our Times
  • Poem - Too Short
​Illinois Emerging Writers Competition
  • Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award - Judge
  • Final Judge - Illinois Poet Laureate​
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Lewis University Art Gallery, 2024
2023
Rose Metal Press - Essay Contributor
  • The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature: Artists and Writers on Creating Graphic Narratives, Poetry Comics, and Literary Collage - Editors, Kelcey Parker Ervick and Tom Hart​
​Big Shoulders DePaul University
  • Poem - The Piano
​Cable Street Issue 3
  • Poem - "Hyperbolic Doorbells"
Cable Street Issue 4
  • Waka Translation - Sei Shōnagon
  • Waka Translation - Fujiwara no Teishi
Diode Editions - Anthology
  • Poem - "Beneath the Sand"
Literatur Outdoors (Vienna, Austria)
  • Poem - Give Peace A Chance - akrostichon for peace
  • Essay - 5 Fragen an KünstlerInnen zur Gegenwart
Tintjournal
  • Poem - "Three Chairs"​
Illinois Emerging Writers Competition
  • Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award - Judge
  • Final Judge - Illinois Poet Laureate
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Versofrontera Literature & Arts Festival, San Antonio, 2023.

Selected Recent Online Events​​​
  • Radio Helsinki (October 2023)
  • The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series (April 2023)
  • Sarabande's⚡ZINE LUNCH!⚡ presents “Create a Graphic Waka Poem! (January 2023)
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WBEZ91.5 Chicago’s NPR station, 2022. Photo by Lauren Frost

​​2022
C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award
"We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan"

​Asian American Writers' Workshop
 - The Margins
  • 百人一首英訳 - Translation waka-poems​
North American Review Open Space
  • Essay about Graphic Poetry
National Poetry Month Postcard Project by Luisa A. Igloria, the Poet Laureate of Virginia
  • April 27, 2022
Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
  • Contributor
Tupelo Quarterly No. 27
  • “Leaving Any Cultural Differences Untouched”: A Conversation with Tana Oshima & A Translation Process – curated by Naoko Fujimoto
Backbone Press
  • Website illustrations
Illinois Emerging Writers Competition
  • Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award - Judge
  • Final Judge - Illinois Poet Laureate
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The 2023 Twin Cities Book Festival with Kelcey Parker Ervick and David Dodd Lee
​2021
Tupelo Press (2021)
  • "Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory" - Book
The Arkansas International
  • 百人一首英訳 - Translation waka-poems ​
Columbia Journal
  • 百人一首英訳 - Translation waka-poems
  • Graphic Translations
Crazyhorse Issue 99
  • 百人一首英訳 - Translation waka-poems
Kyoto Journal Issue 99
  • 百人一首英訳 - Translation waka-poems
North American Review
  • Graphic Poem - "Offshore of Rikuzen Takata" ​​
Zocalo Public Square
  • Graphic Poem - "Sakura, Sakura on the Radio"
Favorite Poem Project
  • Graphic Poem At the Table​
Good River Review Spalding University
  • Poem - "This Is About Time" and "The Horse" (Nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Priz)
The Inflectionist Review
  • Book Review - "Corner Shrine" by Chloe Martinez
Zone 3
  • Poem - "Eczema"
The Indianapolis Review
  • Essay - Reflections on The Paintings of Minami Kobayashi
RHINO Poetry Review
  • Review Contributor
Illinois Emerging Writers Competition
  • Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award - Judge
  • Final Judge - Illinois Poet Laureate
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Tint Journal (Austria) / Worte sind Wege (Germany), 2023
2020
Hayden's Ferry Review
  • Poem - "Why I Didn’t Know"
North American Review
  • Graphic Poem - "Protest Against" ​​
American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans
  • Contributor, book-length pantoum about gun violence in Chicago​
The Indianapolis Review
  • Graphic Poem - "Spaceflight Sonata P.2"
underbelly
  • Essay - Process of shepherding a poem​
Action, Spectacle
  • Graphic Poem - "Unlasted Improvisation", "Childhood Advance"
The Rupture
  • Poem - "Fellow Walker" (Nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Priz)
​Poem of the Week
  • Poem - “Thursdays,” “The Coldest Day is for Beans,” and “In Lawrenceville; Honeymoon”​
RHINO Poetry Review
  • Review Contributor
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Poetry Foundation at Chicago Printers Row Lit Festival, 2022 – RHINO Poetry – Readings by April Gibson, Kathleen Rooney, Jessica Walsh, E. Hughes, Faisal Mohyuddin, Kenyatta Rogers, Jacob Saenz, Maja Teref & Steven Teref. Emceed by Naoko Fujimoto and Elizabeth O-Connell Thompson.
​2019
POETRY
  • Graphic Poem - "Lake Michigan"
The Kenyon Review
  • Poem - "Low Orbit"
Quarterly West
  • Poem - "According to Father I Can Meet My Daughter Again"
The Seattle Review
  • Poem - "Spaceflight Sonata vol.1 and 2"
Tokyo Poetry Journal
  • Poem - "Millennial's Father"​
Willow Books
  • "Where I was Born" - Poetry Book
PANK
  • Poem - "How to Make Shooting Stars"
Diode Poetry Journal
  • Poem - "Beneath the Sand"
The Indianapolis Review
  • Graphic Poem - "Spaceflight Sonata P"
​RHINO Poetry Review
  • Review Contributor​
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The Betsy Hotel, Miami, 2021. Photo by Angela Narciso Torres
2018
Tupelo Quarterly
  • Graphic Poem - "More than Fourteen Days", "August Marble", and "There Are Plenty"​
Backbone Press 
  • "Mother Said, I Want Your Pain" - Chapbook - Winner of the Shared Dream Immigrant Contest
Salem State University Soundings East
  • Poem - "Giant Red Rubber Band"
Glass: A Journal of Poetry
  • Graphic Poem - "How to Choke Myself in the Ugly Kitchen"
  • Graphic Poem - "From an Apartment"
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North American Review (at Blackhawk Hotel), Cedar Falls, 2021
2017
Cream City Review
  • Poem - "A Big Bowl of Beef Stew"
RHINO
  • Poem - "Enough is Never"
Tupelo Quarterly
  • Graphic Poem - "Dividing," "Requiem From an Office 7,000 Miles Away," "Draw the Light," "Kapok Tree" and "White Avenue"
Glass Lyre Press
  • "Silver Seasons of Heartache" - Chapbook Series
Five Oaks Press
  • Rachel Custer's "The Temple She Became" (Cover Art)
Jet Fuel Review
  • Graphic Poem - "The Sallie" and "July 2017, Skipping Stones"
  • Poem - "First Marriage As If" and "Trainride to Another"
Homonym Journal (Berlin)
  • Graphic Poem - "The Pay Phone"
Moria
  • Poem - "Pochi or Kuro" and "There Were Plenty"
Drunk In A Midnight Choir
  • Graphic Poem - "Mugwort's Leaves," "Home No Home" and "I See"​
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POETRY Magazine’s seasonal party, 2019. Photo by Sherry Smith
2016
Cimarron Review
  • Poem - "Spaghetti Harassment" and "The Explosion of Ivy Leaves"
Educe Press
  • "Home, No Home" - Winner of Oro Fino Chapbook Competition
Pirene's Fountain
  • Poem - "Clay Cup From a Chi Stand", "Through an Indian Brick Town", and "Cooking Beans on Kerosene-Oil Heaters"
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OGGI Gallery, 2018
​​2015
Prairie Schooner
  • Poem - "Mugwort's Leaves"
Prairie Schooner's Blog
  • Essay - "Women and the Global Imagination"
The Cape Rock
  • Poem - "Lunch Time Atlas"
Juked
  • Poem - "How to Choke Myself in the Ugly Kitchen"
Tupelo Press 30/30 Anthology
  • Poem - "Unnatural Violence"
Pamplemousse
  • Poem - "Today Is Not October 7th"
Construction Literature Magazine
  • Poem - "Empty Shells in Vinegar"
Hawaii Pacific Review
  • Poem - "The Passing Spring"
Nano Fiction
  • Poem - "Laundry Girl"
The Birds We Piled Loosely
  • Poem - "Helping My Father Dress", "A Pile of Pink", and "Happy 50th Birthday"
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Woman Made Gallery, 2017
2013 
Prism Review
  • Poem - "Carrying My 237 LBS in a Dance Studio" and "After the Laundry"
PMS poemmemoirstory
  • Poem - "Electric Bills"
Berkeley Poetry Review 
  • Poem - "Sixty Seven Years Later" (Nominated for the 2014 Pushcart Priz)​
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Glass Lyre Press, 2016
2012
Hotel Amerika
  • Poem - "As of Late"
Emerge Literary Journal
  • Poem - "The Beach"
Anti-Poetry
  • Poem - "My Father's Ivory Die"

2011 
Natural Bridge
  • Poem - "Requiem From An Office 7,000 Miles Away" and Foreign / Grey"
Spillway
  • Poem - "The First Night"
Unshod Quills
  • Poem - "Tokyo Summer, 1993" and "Mother's Lips"
Alchemy Magazine of Literature & Art
  • Poem - "7:30PM, RHAPSODY"
New Madrid Journal
  • Poem - "Peel" and "In Lawrenceville; Honeymoon"

2010
Bayou
  • Poem - "An Improvisation"

2009 
Passages North
  • Poem - "A Pianist," "February," and "Eyelashes, Four"
Pebble Lake Review
  • Poem - "Greenhouse"
Potomac Review
  • Poem - "At a Station"
RUNE-the MIT
  • Poem - "Natane Tsuyu" and "A Battery"
Gargoyle Magazine
  • Poem - "Meadowsweet Koikokoro"
Big Scream
  • Poem - "Distance" and "Grandmother"
Epiphany/a literary journal
  • Poem - "White Avenue" and "Shigeru"
Cider Press Review
  • Poem - "June Ink" (Nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Priz)

2008
Slipstream 
  • Poem - "On the Beach"
Chiron Review
  • Poem - "A Towel"
 Puerto del Sol
  • Poem - "In the Morning" and "Before the Sunset"

Reviews & Interviews

Field Study
  • Interviewed by Alessandra Simmons
Heavy Father Review
  • Interviewed by Tiffany Troy
Jet Fuel Review
  • Interviewed by JFR Editors
Kenyon Review
  • Interviewed by KR Editors
Monkey Bicycle
  • Reviewed by CL Bledsoe
Nano Fiction
  • Interviewed by Nano Fiction
New York Magazine
  • "Livelihoods of the Poets" By Rachel Friedman
Ploughshares
  • Interviewed by Matthew Thorburn
So You Wanna Win a Book Prize?
  • Interviewed by Katie Schmid Henson
The Chapbook Review
  • ​Interviewed by Laura Madeline Wiseman
The Review Review
  • Reviewed by Sarah Katz
Tupelo Quarterly
  • Interviewed by Kristina Marie Darling
USF Lit Works
  • Interviewed by Sara Cahill
5-9 Working Writers
  • Interviewed by Alessandra Simmons​
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Chicago, 2022

Residency, Awards, Panelists, and Finalists

2024
  • AWP: Writers Making Comics and Collage: How Changing Mediums Changed Our Writing
  • Lewis University Guest Poet

2023
  • Sarabande Writing Labs - Zine Lunch!
  • The Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading Spring 2023 Okuma Author
  • The Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference Full Scholarship
  • Twin Cities Book Festival Panelist
  • Versofrontera Literature & Arts Festival San Antonio Guest Poet
  • The 2023 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest - Finalist​
  • The 2023 Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation

​2022
  • AAPI Writers and Creatives: Reading and Panel
  • Virginia Festival of the Book Panelist
  • Vermont Studio Center Creative Imperative Session Speaker
  • University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Speaker

2021
  • SWWIM residency at The Betsy-South Beach
  • North American Review Guest Poet
  • University of St. Francis Writer's Conference Keynote Speaker

2020
  • Anhinga Press Rick Campbell chapbook prize - Finalist
  • Autumn House Press Chapbook Contest - Finalist
  • Bull City Press Summer Chapbook Open Reading - Finalist

2019
  • Diode Editions Full Length Book Contest - Finalist
  • Diode Editions Chapbook Contest - Finalist
  • Burnside Review Chapbook Contest - Finalist
  • Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize - Finalist
  • Cathexis Northwest Press Chapbook Contest - Finalist 

2018
  • Akron Poetry Prize - Finalist
  • Anhinga Press Rick Campbell chapbook prize - Finalist
  • Autumn House Press Chapbook Contest - Finalist
  • C&R Press Summer Tide Pool chapbook- Shortlist
  • The Los Angeles Review - First Runner-Up

2017
  • Indiana University South Bend Notable Recent Alumna Award
  • John Ashbery’s HOME SCHOOL Poetry & Artist Residency in Los Angeles
  • The Mineral Point Poetry Series - Finalist

2016
  • The Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Award - Finalist
  • MASS MOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Visiting Artist Supported by Tupelo Press

​2015
  • The Kundiman Poetry Prize ​- Finalist
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  • Books
    • Poetry >
      • We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan
      • GLYPH: Graphic Poetry = Trans. Sensory
      • Where I Was Born
      • Mother Said, I Want Your Pain
      • Cochlea
      • Silver Seasons of Heartache
      • Home, No Home
    • Translation >
      • of women
      • 09/09 : Nine Japanese Female Poets / Nine Heian Waka
    • Textbook >
      • Marvels
      • The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature
  • Graphic Poetry
    • What is Trans. Sensory
    • Gallery of Graphic Poems
    • Text Collage
    • Listen to graphic poems
    • 31 Facts about GLYPH
    • Warashibe Documentary >
      • First Erasure
      • First Found Poem
    • Study Guide >
      • Create a first graphic poem
      • How to Approach Image
      • line-breaks
      • Visual Erasure Poetry
  • Working On Gallery
    • Vol. 7 >
      • Irene Adler
      • Yuka Tsuchiya
      • Susan Preston
      • Camila Valladares
    • Vol. 6 >
      • Rosanna Young Oh
      • Rowena Federico Finn
      • Jesse Kercheval
      • Natalia Carrero
      • Genevieve Kaplan
      • Maggie Queeney
      • Katrina Bello
      • Heather Beardsley
    • Vol. 5 >
      • Lisa Schantl
      • Danielle Pieratti
      • Karla Van Vliet
      • m. mick powell
      • Lauren Ari
      • Robert Lifson
      • Marcello Sahea
      • Allan Haverholm
    • Vol. 4 >
      • Angela Quinto
      • Dennis Avelar
      • Anne McGrath
      • Francesca Preston
      • Kelsey Zimmerman
      • Lúcia Leão
      • Claire Bauman
      • Ann Hudson
    • Vol. 3 >
      • Tanja Softić
      • Kylie Gellatly
      • Ananda Lima
      • Lea Graham
      • Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
      • Ina Cariño
      • Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
      • Steven and Maja Teref
    • Vol. 2 >
      • Celia Bland and Kyoko Miyabe
      • Gail Goepfert and Patrice Boyer Claeys
      • Scoot Swain
      • Nancy Botkin
      • Amanda Earl
      • Meg Reynolds
      • Gretchen Primack
      • Frances Cannon
    • Vol. 1 >
      • Octavio Quintanilla
      • Luisa A. Igloria
      • Sarah Sloat
      • J. D. Schraffenberger
      • Natalie Solmer
      • Dara Yen Elerath
      • Kristen Renee Miller
      • Rodney Gomez
  • Translation
    • Conveyorize Art of Translation
    • Waka/Haiku Workshops
    • 和歌英訳
  • About