Serica Storytellers at the Noguchi Museum: Poetry, Memory, and Remembrance

In honor of Day of Remembrance, The Serica Initiative presents a special salon-style Serica Storytellers gathering exploring Japanese American incarceration through poetry, translation, and community dialogue.

Hosted by AAPI community leader Julia Azuma, the evening brings together art, food, and memory. The program centers on By the Shore of Lake Michigan, the award-winning English translation of a 1960 tanka poetry collection written by Tomiko and Ryokuyō Matsumoto — an Issei couple forcibly incarcerated at Heart Mountain during World War II and later resettled in Chicago.