This reading is the launch of Common Grace (Beacon Press, 2022), a poetry collection by writer and visual artist Aaron Caycedo-Kimura. A deft, deeply felt triptych opens with his life as an artist, delves into the inherited trauma within his Japanese American family, and finally ends on the close bond between him and his wife. In these poems, the visible world radiates meaning, memory becomes palpable, and loss is acknowledged.
About the presenter
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is the author of Ubasute, which won the 2020 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. His honors include a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in Poetry, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets anthologies. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily, RHINO, upstreet, Verse Daily, DMQ Review, Poet Lore, The Night Heron Barks, and more. His paintings have appeared in galleries throughout Connecticut, including Chester Gallery, the John Slade Ely House, the Westport Arts Center, and City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport. He earned his MFA in creative writing from Boston University, and is also the author and illustrator of Text, Don’t Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life (TarcherPerigee, 2017).
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