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Sesshu Foster (born April 5, 1957) is an American poet and novelist.

Sesshu Foster is a Japanese-American poet of white and Nisei descent. He grew up on Los Angeles’ East Side and came of age in the primarily Chicano neighborhood of City Terrace, where he was influenced by local community organizing and political artmaking. Foster credits moving to City Terrace the same year as the Watts Riots (1965) with helping to shape his writing voice and ongoing creative/personal concerns with social and racial justice and the impacts of gentrification.

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Sesshu Foster

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Sesshu Foster (born April 5, 1957) is an American poet and novelist. Sesshu Foster is a Japanese-American poet of white and Nisei descent. He grew up on...

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Atomik Aztex

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Atomik Aztex is a 2005 speculative fiction alternate history novel by Sesshu Foster. The novel combines elements of speculative fiction, alternate history...

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Ben Lerner

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v t e Recipients of the Believer Book Award Sam Lipsyte (2004) Sesshu Foster (2005) Cormac McCarthy (2006) Tom McCarthy (2007) Emily Perkins (2008) Percival...

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American Book Awards

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The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster for Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry Miles Davis for Miles:...

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Sam Lipsyte

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v t e Recipients of the Believer Book Award Sam Lipsyte (2004) Sesshu Foster (2005) Cormac McCarthy (2006) Tom McCarthy (2007) Emily Perkins (2008) Percival...

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Japanese Americans

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Muin Ozaki (1985), Toshio Mori (1986), William Minoru Hohri (1989), Sesshu Foster (1990 and 2010), Karen Tei Yamashita (1991 and 2011), Sheila Hamanaka...

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Tamara Faith Berger

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v t e Recipients of the Believer Book Award Sam Lipsyte (2004) Sesshu Foster (2005) Cormac McCarthy (2006) Tom McCarthy (2007) Emily Perkins (2008) Percival...

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Firecracker Award

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Little Fish Creative Nonfiction Shaelyn Smith The Leftovers Poetry Sesshu Foster City of the Future Magazines: Best Debut Aster(ix) Magazines: General...

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James Hynes

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v t e Recipients of the Believer Book Award Sam Lipsyte (2004) Sesshu Foster (2005) Cormac McCarthy (2006) Tom McCarthy (2007) Emily Perkins (2008) Percival...

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Kaya Press

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Chen, Neelanjana Banerjee, Sunyoung Lee, Warren Liu, Gerald Maa, and Sesshu Foster. Kaya Press publishes fiction, experimental poetry, critical essays...

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Believer Book Award

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Kretser The Hamilton Case Selah Saterstrom The Pink Institution 2005 Sesshu Foster Atomik Aztex Winner John Wray Canaan's Tongue Shortlist Tom Bissell...

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Asian American Literary Awards

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Black Ed Lin* – This Is a Bust 2009 Jhumpa Lahiri – Unaccustomed Earth Sesshu Foster – World Ball Notebook Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls: From Village...

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Language for a New Century

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Boully Michael Ondaatje Earth of Drowned Gods Saadi Youssef Latif Nazemi Sesshu Foster R. Cheran Muhammad al-Maghut Jeet Thayil Kedarnath Singh Fadwa Tuqan...

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Deena Metzger

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Invocation L.A. Urban Multicultural Poetry, eds. Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster, Naomi Quinonez Love Stories by New Women, Charlene Swansea and Barbara...

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Russell Leong

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"Fresh Harvest: Multicultural Poetry from a Nation of Immigrants," by Sesshu Foster, in Northwest Review, 1994. Biography and writers statement in Contemporary...

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Amy Uyematsu

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Shimpo. Obituary: Amy Uyematsu, latimes.com. Accessed November 22, 2023. Foster, Sesshu (2023-06-28). "Appreciation: Pioneering L.A. poet Amy Uyematsu showed...

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Hokusai

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linear perspective among Japanese artists. Hokusai himself was influenced by Sesshū Tōyō and other styles of Chinese painting. His influences stretched across...

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Hilton Obenzinger

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Streitfeld, David (January 14, 1990). "Book report". Washington Post. Foster, Sesshu (January 1990). "Fresh harvest: New multicultural poetry by and about...

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Japanese art

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foremost artists of the Muromachi period are the priest-painters Shūbun and Sesshū. Shūbun, a monk at the Kyoto temple of Shōkoku-ji, created in the painting...

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List of Buddhists

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(1904–1971) Dai Bai Zan Cho Bo Zen Ji (born 1933) Bassui Tokushō (1327–1387) Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506) Sobin Yamada Hakuun Yasutani (1885–1973) Bankei Yōtaku...

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