"Voices from the Gaps" is an instructional Web site focusing on the lives and works of North American women writers of color. The Mitsuye Yamada page contains a poem, a section of biography, criticism, and related links.

BIOGRAPHY
Mitsuye Yamada (b. 1923) was born in Fukuoka, Japan and moved to Seattle with her family when she was three years old. Her father founded the Senryu (Japanese poet) Society in Seattle, and was arrested for espionage after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Yamadas were then incarcerated at a relocation camp in Idaho, though she and her brother were allowed to leave because they renounced loyalty to the emperor of Japan. Yamada received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago. Her first publication, Camp Notes and Other Poems, in 1976, was published more than 20 years after the book was finished due to the restriction on Japanese-American writing after World War II. Yamada also worked with Nellie Wong on a biographical documentary for public television, Mitsuye and Nellie: Two Asian-American Woman Poets. Yamada's second book, Desert Run: Poems and Stories, was published in 1992.