Amocat award winner and author Tamiko Nimura waxes rhapsodic 6l283w

Jamika and Katy talk with author and community builder Tamiko Nimura about her well-earned Amocat Art Award for Community Outreach by an Individual. We explore her incredible literary and historical work, and “wax rhapsodic”! Listen for Tamiko’s incredible stories, stay for the love of the Tacoma Arts Listserv and lots of laughs. Read Tamiko’s books: Rosa Franklin: A Life in Health Care, Public Service, and Social Justice and We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration (co-authored with Frank Abe and artists Ross Ishikawa and Matt Sasaki). Read Tamiko’s essay, To My 11-Year-Old Father in the Camp. And get excited for Tamiko’s memoir, Pilgrimage: a Japanese American Daughter’s Reckoning with Memory and History (working title), as well as her poem The Essayist Reaches for Poetry, soon to be featured at Yellow Arrow Publishing. Check out the exhibition Resisters: A Legacy of Movement from the Japanese American Incarceration for which Tamiko collaborated with the curators and created the text s. Tamiko also wrote the copy for the Tanforan Memorial & Exhibit: Tanforan Incarceration 1942; Resilience Behind Barbed Wire, a long-term exhibit inside the San Bruno BART Station. Shout outs, mentions, and topics include: the Tacoma Arts Listserv, Tacoma Youth Theatre, King’s Books, The Neely Mansion, singing, Dukesbay Theater, Aya Hashiguchi Clark, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, Wing Luke Museum, Sashiko embroidery, letter writing, cookies, UW Tacoma, Tacoma Japantown (Nihonmachi), grief, Frank Abe, Ross Ishikawa, Matt Sasaki, fathers, Japanese American Incarceration, memory, history, journalling   Featured image courtesy of Tamiko Nimura. 60k4i