Yurina Yoshikawa

Yurina Yoshikawa is a writer who moved to Nashville in 2017 after ten years of living in NYC. She received her BA in philosophy from Barnard College and MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she taught undergraduate writing. She also worked in book publishing in both editorial and publicity departments. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry and Hyphen Magazine, among others. Yurina teaches fiction and non-fiction workshops at The Porch while working on her novel, playing the viola with the Nashville Philharmonic, and raising a goofy toddler. To learn more, visit www.yurinayoshikawa.com.

Yurina Yoshikawa

Smashed Glass

By Yurina Yoshikawa

I’ve taught James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” more times than I can count. The first time I encountered it was in grad school, during a writing pedagogy seminar at Columbia. I was 23 years old, preparing to teach a required freshman writing course as part of my fellowship. Other than a rigid curriculum […]

Dynamite Kid

By Yurina Yoshikawa

November 1996 * The bartender didn’t suspect a thing when Claire Kang ordered four gin and tonics. She looked like a gaijin and spoke Japanese with a thick accent. “Gin and tonic yonko onegai shimasu?” The bartender, who looked like a young boy […]

Amber Stewart The Champion Poetry

Inspired by Companhia Urbana de Danca

Ephie Hauck Afterparty Sadness Prose

Inspired by Companhia Urbana de Dança

Alora Young when the day comes Prose

Inspired by The Day, with Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan

Serena Alexander Ghosts: A Holiday Haunting Prose

Inspired by The Longest Night

Natalie Zhou Names Unheard Prose

Inspired by Mellotron Variations

Rachel Helen Reynolds Here, Not There Poetry

Inspired by Stew and Heidi: Notes of a Native Song

Dana Malone Kinetics: Identity & Female Lead Poetry

Inspired by Companhia Urbana de Dança

Henry L. Jones I AM THE UNIVERSE Poetry

Inspired by Hiroaki Umeda

Yurina Yoshikawa Smashed Glass Essay

Inspired by Stew and Heidi: Notes of a Native Song

Amber Stewart The Explorer Poetry

Inspired by Rosie Herrera's First Fruit, New Dialect

Kashif Graham Went Home to Meet White Supremacy Prose

Inspired by Mellotron Variations

Amber Stewart The Guide Poetry

In response to Split Flow and Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

Serena Alexander my beloved monster Poetry

Inspired by Manual Cinema's Frankenstein

Natalie Zhou il est midi Prose

In response to Na Pista & ID: ENTIDADES by Companhia Urbana de Dança

Alora Young Rebooting Poetry

In response to Split Flow & Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

Ephie Hauck Fish Out of Water Prose

In response to The Moth

Dana Malone Frankenstein: Narration / Interpretation / Transmission Poetry

In response to Frankenstein by Manual Cinema

Henry L. Jones Rise & Darkness Becomes Me Poetry

In response to The Longest Night

Kashif Graham Behn's Flow Prose

In response to Split Flow & Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

Yurina Yoshikawa Dynamite Kid Prose

In response to Na Pista & ID: ENTIDADES by Companhia Urbana de Dança