NOV 6 – ‘Death is Life is Death is Life: Eco-Critical Consciousness in the Art of Maki Ohkojima’ with Keiji Suga, Meiji University

Keijiro Suga (b. 1958) is a poet and critic based in Tokyo. Formerly the president of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Japan, his work covers ethnopoetics, ecocriticism, contemporary world literature, and translation theory. He was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 2011 for his travel essays Transversal Journeys. With nine collections of poetry so far, he has been invited to read at poetry festivals and universities in more than twenty countries.