Sunday, June 10 @6:30pm
A Mother-Daughter Poetry Duo
Mary Oishi and Aja Oishi
Rock Paper Scissors
Mary Oishi has two poetic voices: one stark and simple like that of her Japanese ancestors, and one that echoes the rhythms of preachers from her upbringing by her American father’s fundamentalist relatives. Both voices sing her songs of truth and social justice.
Aja Oishi's writing draws from ecology, anthropology, and the years she spent in Spain, Japan, and New Zealand. She revels in the uncaged world and makes a living (and a life) by fighting for prisoners as an appellate public defender.
These two magnificent poets are mother and daughter, two generations meeting here in a perfect storm of authenticity, brilliance and craft. -- Margaret Randall, author of She Becomes Time and editor of Only the Road / Solo el camino: eight decades of Cuban Poetry.