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Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma

author, poet, teacher, and performer

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Stories, Essays, Poems, Interviews

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“Senior Year”

April 8, 2021

I was honored to have a story published in the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber this week as part of the Literary Project of Open Space for Arts and Community and their […]

THE SONG AND THE SILENCE: TALKING WITH SHIN YU PAI

March 5, 2021

Shin Yu Pai: ENSO

I recently had a wonderful, far-reaching conversation with my friend, the poet, artist, speaker, and curator Shin Yu Pai. Our talk explored embodiment, mothering, teachers, and the practice of devotion, […]

Welcome to the Dance

January 28, 2019

Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma reciting "Welcome to the Dance"

For the 2016 Strawberry Festival, Leah Mann, along with Friends of Mukai, the Vashon Chamber of Commerce, Vashon Center for the Arts, Chautauqua Elementary School, Vashon-Maury Land Trust, and 4Culture, organized a Bon Odori dance at the […]

Here: A Poem in Five Parts

January 27, 2019

First Loves: A Plan B Essay

January 15, 2019

How I came to combine poetry and magic, published in Ploughshares. You can read the complete essay on their website: https://www.pshares.org/issues/summer-2015/first-loves-plan-b-essay

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