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Yuko Otomo, Visual Artist and Poet, Spring Street Opera
Yuko Otomo originally from Japan and currently living in New York City, is a visual artist and a bilingual poet, she writes poetry, haiku, art criticism, travelogues, and essays. Her publications include Garden: Selected Haiku (Beehive Press), Genesis (Sisyphus Press), Small Poems (UDP), The Hand of The Poet (UDP), Study (UDP), Elements (the Feral Press), KOAN (New Feral Press), Frozen Heatwave, a collaboration with Steve Dalachinsky (Luna Bisonte Prods), and Envelope (Poems-For-All). Otomo’s visual artwork has been shown in various gallery spaces; such as Tribes Gallery, Anthology Film Archives Courthouse Gallery, ABC No Rio, Brecht Forum, Gallery 128, Knitting Factory & Vision Festival. As a poet/writer, she has read her work in venues such as St. Marks’s Poetry Project, Bowery Poetry Club, Tonic, The Stone, Knitting Factory, NY Public Library, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Nest, Pink Pony, Nuyorican Poet’s Café etc. Otomo has also read in Germany, France & Japan, and has been published in many magazines and literary publications. Yuko Otomo’s poetry will be featured in the exclusive world première of Spring Street and the full performance can be watched here on Saturday 24th July 2021. Inspired by life on Spring Street, Manhattan – setting the poetry of Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo to music by Pete Wyer – wildly eclectic like the street itself. View the trailer here. https://jeeni.com/springstreet/ #yukootomo #opera #newyork #original #springstreet #virtualopera #poetry #poetryreading #newyorkopera #manhattenopera #manhattenpoetry #yukootomopoetry #newyorkpoetry #visualartist #haiku #bilingualpoet #poetryclub
view artist showcaseYuko Otomo and Connie Crothers
This series engages different creative disciplines under the banner of improvisation, and a mutual caring about the World we share, with each artist adapting their concerns to build a stronger community.
Yuko Otomo - Scroll Bowl V
It took place on April 2nd, 2011 at TenEleven Bar in NYC.
Yuko Otomo Poetry Celebration for Steve Dalachinsky
October 19 , 2019. Lower East Side, New York. Video: Thelma Blitz for tulifuli and Revolting News
Yuko Otomo - ANYDSWPE
Yuko Otomo at Palabras Luminosas (Luminous Words): 2016 ANYDSWPE
Yuko Otomo - Tuli Kupferberg Tribute Poem Humour
Bowery Poetry Club, July 13, 2011
Yuko Otomo Reading
Reading at 292 Gallery
Yuko Otomo reading!
At the St. Marks Book Store
Yuko Otomo (part 1 & 2)
15/ 02/ 11 // 2 sets in one video
Yuko Otomo - In Paris
11 / 10 / 15 - Paris