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ARTE - Le dessous des cartes American Civil Liberties Union Foreign Policy in Focus | Home Change Links Progressive Newspaper and Calendar title of your pa Politech: Declan McCullagh's politics and technology site Progressive Populist Eat the State! (December 10, 2009) Home - Covertaction.org A Guide to Asian American Empowerment As National Poetry Month ends and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month begins, Wataru Ebihara discusses Infinite Loop, his recently published collection of poetry and photographs, with ModelMinority.com. You can order Ebihara's book and see some of his other work at his Web site. Tell us a bit about yourself. I'm a third-generation Japanese American or "Sansei" from Cleveland, Ohio, and I moved to Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1995. I admit to easily fitting into the Asian American model minority stereotype... My current "day job" is an Information Systems Manager. How long have you been writing poetry? I first started with Japanese haiku poems. I do not have a formal background in English literature or creative writing, but I feel that poetry is something that arises primarily from "doing" -- and using one's experiences and heart. What was it like to get your book published? My original motivation was to share my writing with family and friends.