Episode 4 is out on iTunes and other podcast apps! https://rootabaga.org/ California native (Dr.) Jordan A.Y. Smith talks about his prolific life in Japan as a professor, translator, poet and sometimes rapper, about poetry as an antidote to loneliness, the key to surviving multiple 5,000-mile moves with his multi-cultural family, creating poetry with three Japanese poets in Mt. Fuji's legendary Sea of Trees, and some of his new music and poetry. photo 1: at Ueno Poetrican Jam September 2018, with Nii Tete Boye on drums photo 2: at Jochiji Temple in Kamakura November 2018, with Ihara Tokiko on shō reed pipes #rootabaga #podcast #poetry #tokyo #japan #poet #rap #hiphop #expatlife #expat @jordangiraffe @tokyo_poetry_journal #culture #aokigahara #translation #music @culturetrip @culture.lens #crossculture #wordporn @niiteteboye (at Qingdao, Shandong) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsrspX3HTB5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cl1dd84m4dlg