Discipline: Literature – poetry

Dana Isokawa

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2023

Dana Isokawa is a poet and editor. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, and Narrative. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Hambidge Center.

Isokawa is a contributing editor of Poets & Writers Magazine and the editor in chief of The Margins, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.

While at MacDowell, she drafted poems to include in her first poetry manuscript, Indirect Objects. Poems from the manuscript have been published or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, and the Southern Review.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Dana Isokawa worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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