7.26.08:: Four new poems by Jill Yamasawa
Jill joins us again with poetry on plastic bottle predicaments, covert reporting, and island recollections.
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"...I use a ticking time bomb approach. I create a sense of urgency in the room so that way they feel pressure to keep working. They’re more alert that way otherwise you lose them..."
JILL was born in Holualoa. After changing job opportunities at NYCTF and JET, she works as a creative arts grant writer and language teacher. She has volunteered at Olomana, Center for Asian Pacific Exchange, Kahuamānoa Press, and Tinfish Press. Her interests include second language studies, quilting as painting, and the poetry of John Ashbery, Susan Schultz, and Linh Dinh. Her work has appeared in How2, Paradigm, and Tinfish. She edits a small limited run journal of SPED and ESL poetry and prose.