Don't Let the War Kill Me Twice - My Grandmothers' War Experiences

New Project - My Grandmothers' War Experiences

My new graphic poetry project started! It will be longer than "Offshore of Rikuzen Takata" (22 pages, forthcoming North American Review Spring/Summer, 2021). This project will be in a simple black & white format.

I realized how much I could express with black pens & pencils. Many students inspired me this year through virtual lectures. Even their first drafts, their black & white sketches sparked my curiosity.  I would like to explore more about this art style.

Recent Lecture

​I read two volumes of MAUS by Art Spiegelman. In these, the author recorded his father's war experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor in a black & white comic format. I admire his art style and story telling technique.

This new project will explore my grandmothers' war experiences exclusively through black pens and pencils. I have previously written and published poems about their stories, but now strongly feel that it is necessary to show these visually before they pass on.

​This project is somewhere between poetry and creative non-fiction in a wide-screen comic style.