11 a.m.–12:15 p.m., Schaeffer Hall 40

Pero Fukuda (Kyoto University)

“Poeming through Languages, Poeming through Medias”

Brenna Tanner (University of Tsukuba)

“Interwoven Texts, Intersecting Worlds: Bridging Japanese Studies and Connecting

Literature, Religion, and Beyond”

Kiriko Nishida (Wako University)

“IWP and Hajime Kijima’s The Poetry of Postwar Japan.”

Yuki Tanaka (Hosei University)

“Writing Poetry in English as a Second Language, translating Shuzo Takiguchi and

Contemporary Tanka into English.”

1:30–4:30 p.m., Gerber Lounge, English-Philosophy Building 304

Loren Glass (Iowa)

“The Boom in Iowa.”

Stephen Voyce (Iowa)

              ““Does the Deep State have an Aesthetic?”

Harilaos Stecopoulos (Iowa)

“The Countercultural Writers' Workshop.”

Kendall Heitzman (Iowa)

“Translating with the Writer in the Room”

Roundtable (2 hours)

Kohei Aoki (Aichi Prefectual University)

“Literary History after the End of the Cold War.”

Hiromi Ochi (Senshu University)

“US Southern Literature and Cold War Culture.”

Michael Larson (Keio University)

“Creative Writing in Genre Fiction and Workshop Alternatives after the Program Era.”

Ryoichi Yamane (Institute of Science Tokyo)

“The Cold War Biopolitics of Demografiction.”

Kyoko Yoshida (Kyoto University)

“The May 1956 issue of the Journal Poetry: A Collaboration of Wallace Stegner, Karl

Shapiro, Paul Engle, and Satoru Sato.”

Yukari Yoshihara (University of Tsukuba)        

“Congress for Cultural Freedom–Affiliated Periodicals in Asia.”

6–7 p.m., Prairie Lights Bookstore, 15 S. Dubuque St.

Mary Jo Bang and Yuki Tanaka, reading from their translation A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi (Princeton University Press, 2025)