Poetry and Anthropology

March 28th, 2025 12PM | Penn Museum Rm 438 

An afternoon of poetry and conversation with Fukudapero, a poet, artist, and multimodal anthropologist living in Kyoto, Japan. In this lunch gathering, we will think together about the intersections between anthropological inquiry and poetic practice specifically, and more broadly about what happens when we let our creative talents inspire and enrich our research projects.

​Bio: Fukudapero is a poet, artist, and multimodal anthropologist living in Kyoto, Japan. Employing various modes of expression, viz: text, drawing, photography, film to installation, his works question reality and how they are collectively constructed. Highly commended by Forward Prize for Poetry 2020 (flowers like blue glass), his poetry has appeared in prominent magazines such as Gendaishi Techo, Bungakugaki, Australian Poetry Journal and more. fukuda is currently working on his second poetry collection, how to eat a mackerel (working title), a collection which investigates globalization and transcontinental folk imagination.