Sesshu Foster celebrates Amy Uyematsu, a pioneering and politically active Japanese American poet, who died Friday at 75 — and never stopped fighting or writing.
: Urban Multicultural Poetry,” the first of its kind about Los Angeles, which collected poems by writers ranging from machinist-poet Fred Voss to the late Akilah Nayo Oliver and Wanda Coleman, from organizer-poet Deena Metzger to Harry Gamboa Jr. of the famed Asco art group — as well as Russell Leong and Amy Uyematsu.
Amy had been around for the beginnings of the student-led Asian American movement at UCLA, and she stayed politically active as she got married and had a son, taking part in the activities of the Pacific Asian American Women Writers West in the 1980s and the collective known as Cantaluz in the ’90s. I didn’t know the details, but I knew her life wasn’t easy: divorcing and raising a son as a single mom; embracing Buddhism and finding a time and place for her role as a poet.
Nor did Amy rest on the work she’d done decades earlier. In 2005, she published a book of Zen-inflected poems, “Stone Bow Prayer,”
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