One Bellevue, One Book: I Remember Everything, Historical Poetry Workshop with Troy Osaki
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Jul 12, 2025 2pm - 3:30pm
Details
In this generative workshop, write deep into your history.
These histories include family history, migration history and the history of your home country. Examine the experiences that have shaped you. Explore how perseverance is born, in part, out of your background. Practice poetic devices to bring your memories to life.
Writers of all levels are welcome.
For adults and teens.
Please register. Registration will open on Saturday, July 5 at 10:00 am.
Workshop is led by Troy Osaki, a Filipino Japanese poet, organizer and attorney. A three-time grand slam poetry champion, he has received fellowships from Kundiman, Hugo House and the Jack Straw Cultural Center, as well as a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. His work is anthologized in THE GATE OF MEMORY: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Haymarket Books 2025) and featured in various publication. He lives in Seattle, WA where his great-grandpa was the Buddhist minister at the Seattle Buddhist Temple during World War II.
A One Bellevue, One Book program.
Bringing Bellevue together to read, discuss and engage with one book, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe, Tamiko F. Nimura, Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki.
Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.
