Wednesday, June 28, 2023 — 5:00 p.m.
This morning’s edition of the L.A. Times contained a column by Sesshu Foster, one of this city’s most incisive poets, in which he pays tribute to Amy Uyematsu. It is the best thing I have read about her in the days since her passing, and so I am posting the link to it with the hope that those of you who don’t tend to read the L.A. Times will learn of it.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-06-28/appreciation-pioneering-l-a-poet-amy-uyematsu-showed-that-words-could-move-mountains
(This photograph taken on Ohio Avenue in Long Beach, June 20, 2023, three days before Amy’s passing. Let the burgeoning blossoms of two of L.A. best-known plants serve as my floral offering to her passage.)
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