Sho Sugita

Books

Native Genius (The Elephants, E-chapbook, 2018)
Spiral Staircase: Collected Poems of Hirato Renkichi (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017)
Hirato Renkichi Booklet (Diez Press, 2014)

Poems

“Language Acquisition,” The Capilano Review (Issue 3.42: Translingual, Fall 2020)
“Toad Variations,” Fence (Summer 2018)
“Marianne Moore’s Nesting Doll,” Fence (Summer 2018)
“from TANKA/ZANKA,” Sonora Review (Fall 2017)
“from TANKA/ZANKA,” Brooklyn Rail (April 2017)
“Problems in Translation,” OmniVerse (April 2015)
“from HAIKAI/HAKAI,” Drunken Boat (Issue 20)
“Junction Rules,” VOLT (Issue 19)
“Bamboo Shoots,” Washington Square Review (Issue 30)

Translations

Akutagawa Ryunosuke
“Novels Without a 'Story-Like' Story,” Global Modernists on Modernism (ed. Stephen Ross and Alys Moody), Bloomsbury Modernist Archives
Hagiwara Kyojiro
“An Artistic Inquiry into the Barrack Towns,” Global Modernists on Modernism (ed. Stephen Ross and Alys Moody), Bloomsbury Modernist Archives
“Geological Fault of Human Beings,” The Poetry Review (108:2)
“Raskolnikov,” Asymptote (Apr 2018)
“Soot and Smoke,” Asymptote (Apr 2018)
“While Stirring a Deck of Karuta Cards,” Sink Review (Issue 17)
“A Matchstick Will Suffice for Prayer,” Sink Review (Issue 17)
“Distributing Quarantines, Numbers, and Flyers in August,” Seedings (Issue 3)
“Edible Frogs,” Seedings (Issue 3)
“Manifesto on the Alphabet,” Seedings (Issue 3)
“Life,” Seedings (Issue 3)
“Advertisement Tower!” Lana Turner (Issue 9)
“It’s a Grave It’s a Grave,” The Margins (Sep 2016)
“The Retail Price for Salmon and Human is 50 Cents,” The Margins (Sep 2016)
Hagiwara Sakutaro
“On Translating Poetry,” Seedings (Issue 5)
Hirato Renkichi
“My Futurism in Action,” Global Modernists on Modernism (ed. Stephen Ross and Alys Moody), Bloomsbury Modernist Archives
“On the State of the Imagists,” Cha: An Asian Literary Review (April 2018)
“The Problem of Poetry and Prose Poetry,” Cha: An Asian Literary Review (April 2018)
“On Analogism,” Cha: An Asian Literary Review (April 2018)
“Brightly Set the Torch,” The Margins (Sep 2016)
“Bar,” The Margins (Sep 2016)
“The Footsteps of Joyous Life,” Hyperallergic (Aug 2016)
“Instrument,” A Perimeter (Issue 2)
“Figure,” A Perimeter (Issue 2)
“Improvisational Poem I,” A Perimeter (Issue 2)
“Improvisational Poem II,” A Perimeter (Issue 2)
“Nothing Day/Not Guilty,” A Perimeter (Issue 2)
“Hot-Blast,” Lana Turner (Issue 7)
“An Impression of Hospital K,” Lana Turner (Issue 7)
“Ginza, Color, Light, Reverberation, Stench, Curiosity, Éphémère,” Lana Turner (Issue 7)
“Toad,” Lana Turner (Issue 7)
“Speck, Fishhook, Crest, Antenna, Hoof,” Lana Turner (Issue 7)
“Ensemble,” Lana Turner (Issue 7)
“Kitchen,” Paperbag, (No. 7)
“A Caricature of Early Dawn,” Paperbag, (No. 7)
“Expanse and I,” Paperbag, (No. 7)
“To the End of the World,” Poems by Sunday
“As the Siren Goes Off…,” Poems by Sunday
“Unrestrained,” Poems by Sunday
“Vertical Cut,” Poems by Sunday
“Machine,” Chicago Review (Issue 58:02)
“A Conversation on the Hill,” Chicago Review (Issue 58:02)
“Poem of Directness,” 6x6 (Issue 30)
“Dahlia,” 6x6 (Issue 30)
“Flying Bird,” 6x6 (Issue 30)
“Tentacle,” 6x6 (Issue 30)
“Self-Effacement,” 6x6 (Issue 30)
“Friend of the Day,” 6x6 (Issue 30)
“Ballade van de Haven,” A Perimeter (Issue 1)
“Song for the Skylark,” A Perimeter (Issue 1)
“Gourd Garden,” A Perimeter (Issue 1)
“Ball,” A Perimeter (Issue 1)
“New Voice,” A Perimeter (Issue 1)
“Music Inside the Box,” A Perimeter (Issue 1)
“MINIMUM-MAXIMUM,” Asymptote (Oct 2014)
“Migration,” Asymptote (Oct 2014)
“Creation,” Asymptote (Oct 2014)
“Self-Portrait,” Asymptote (Oct 2014)
“Contact,” Asymptote (Oct 2014)
Kawaji Ryuko
“The Shore After a Storm,” Equalizer (Issue 2)
“A Moment of Sensation,” Equalizer (Issue 2)
“Cloudy Day,” Equalizer (Issue 2)
Ko Hanyong (Ko Dada) tr. Yoshikawa Nagi
“Misconstrued 'DADA',” Global Modernists on Modernism (ed. Stephen Ross and Alys Moody), Bloomsbury Modernist Archives

Reviews

“Spiral Staircase by Hirato Renkichi [Why This Book Should Win],” Three Percent: a resource for international literature at the University of Rochester (May 2018)
“March 2018 Micro-Reviews” by Aditi Machado, Kenyon Review (March 2018)
“The Imagination of a New Era: new translations of Japanese modernism” by Alys Moody, Sydney Review of Books (Feb 6, 2018)
“A Review of Hirato Renkichi's Spiral Staircase” by Kathryn M. Tanaka, Tokyo Poetry Journal (Issue 4)
“Spiral Staircase: Collected Poems” by John Bradley, Rain Taxi (Summer 2017)
“Kernel of the Future: Hirato Renkichi’s Spiral Staircase” by Jordan A.Y. Smith, Reading in Translation (May 25, 2017)
“Make the Future Great Again: Hirato Renkichi’s Spiral Staircase” by Matt Turner, Seedings (May 16, 2017)
“Hirato Renkichi: The Black Shadow-Man Illuminated” by Douglas Messerli, Hyperallergic (April 15, 2017)
“Poetry Review: Spiral Staircase by Hirato Renkichi” by Greg Bem, Queen Mob’s Teahouse (Feb 28, 2017)
“Hirato Renkichi's Collected Poems Are a Dazzlement of 1920s Japanese Futurism” by Michael Barron, The Culture Trip (Feb 7, 2017)

Interviews

“In Conversation: Sho Sugita on Translating Hirato Renkichi & the Japanese Avant-Garde” by Corina Copp, Harriet (Poetry Foundation)
“Contributor Interview,” Sonora Review Blog (Jan 2018)
“Episode #371: Hirato Renkichi,” Cross Cultural Poetics, KAOS-FM (Feb 21, 2017)
“Interview with Sho Sugita,” Kundiman Blog (Sep 2013)

Newspaper Articles

“Jikken-teki na shi: futatabi yo e,” Shinano Mainichi Shimbun (June 8, 2018)
“Ningen kikō: zenei-teki na shi — bei de rōdoku no tabi,” Shinano Mainichi Shimbun (Feb 22, 2017)
“Poetry as a Motor Driving Humanity,” Daily Iowan (Feb 9, 2017)
“A Passion for Poetry,” Mail Tribune / Ashland Daily Tidings (Jan 30, 2017)