June 2009 | Publications
A translated edition of Current has been published: The book has the original English text and its Japanese translation side-by-side on facing pages, with a newly written afterword by the author.
Born in Japan in 1980, Kosuke Miyata lived in New York since 2003. His poem 'The Fishes' took 3rd place in the English-Speaking Union New York Branch's city-wide college 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.