[Kosuke Miyata face photo] Kosuke Miyata

Works

Current

Kosuke Miyata's first poetry chapbook published in 2006. The title poem of 18 sections was born form his first revisit to Japan.

Back cover blurbs (excerpts): Kosuke Miyata, world citizen born and educated in Japan, is a brilliant convert to the English language and to English prosody in all its richness. With a motorcycle as its Muse, this sequence takes a lyrically exuberant place in the American tradition of the poem as road movie.
——Marilyn Hacker

Among the paradoxes he realizes in his astonishing chapbook Current, Kosuke Miyata reveals how loss is built into everything we are; that inherent in the solid is the elusive—what we might call the eternal—flux tethered to matter; and what is most fleeting can be most beautifully and intricately made.
——Yerra Sugarman
ISBN: 1-59924-085-8
Available online at: amazon.com

Media

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2007/12/01 pen "IKI Nouveau"

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2006/11/25 Weekly New York Seikatsu "BOOKS"

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2006/10/14 Yomiuri Shimbun (evening ed.) "Next Generation"

Biography

Born in Japan in 1980, Kosuke Miyata lived in New York as a student at the City College of New York of the City Uniersity of New York since 2003. His poem 'The Fishes' took third place in the English-Speaking Union New York Branch's city-wide poetry competition in 2004. Another poem, 'Dusk Walk', earned him honorable mention in the Lumina National Poetry Contest in 2006, and He published his first chapbook of poetry in Septebmer that year. He moved to Tokyo in 2007, after finishing a cross-North America ride.