About Tazuo YamaguchiTazuo Yamaguchi has earned a national reputation as a poet, touring performer, and filmmaker for a full decade through his solo tours, his films, his long list of collaborations with some of the nation's finest poets and artists, two national haiku championships, and his "provocative" poetry workouts and workshops that guide the voices of youth to the Tazuo Yamaguchi is a master storyteller, poet and spoken word craftsman with a deep heritage in Shigin Poetry (poet, chanter, and storytellers of the royal court of Japan.) Growing up in the Bay Area, he was influenced by the poets, musicians, and creators of his time. He publishes his own works and implements ancient and modern traditions into new developing digital technologies. Peter Rabbit calls him "the poet with the brass balls." Commenting on how in the heat of a poetry slam off, Yamaguchi would whip out a fully improvisational poem.
Tazuo is the author of Bishiki (ten years of haiku insights, rituals, and poems) published by WordSmith Press, four chapbooks books, three CDs, Director and producer of three films, director and producer of 12 National Poetry Slam DVDs, an old school poetry slam champion, coach of the award winning Chico youth poets for seven years, and a producer The Wordsmith Press @ http://www.myspace.com/PoemStudios |
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