What is Lawson Inada?
'''Lawson Fusao Inada''' (born 1938 in [[Fresno, California]]) is an [[Americans|American]] [[poet]] and was the fifth [[poet laureate]] of the U.S. state of [[Oregon]]. ==Early life== Inada is a third-generation [[Japanese American]] (''[[Sansei]]''). As a child, Inada and his family were [[Japanese American internment|interned]] during [[World War II]].<ref name=wote>{{cite web|url=http://www.writersontheedge.org/inada.html|title=Lawson Fusao Inada|accessdate=2007-07-06|publisher=WritersOnTheEdge.org |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928101902/http://www.writersontheedge.org/inada.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-28}}</ref> Inada became a [[jazz]] musician, and this affected his writing.<ref name=wote/> Inada cites jazz and his time in the internment camps as his chief influences as a poet.<ref name=hm>{{cite web|url=http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/inada_la.html|publisher=Houghton-Mifflin|title=Lason Inada|accessdate=2007-07-06}}</ref> He studied writing at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], the [[University of Oregon]], and the [[University of Iowa]].<ref name=enotes>{{cite web|url=http://www.enotes.com/salem-lit/lawson-fusao-inada|publisher=enotes.com|title=Lawson Fusao Inada Biography|accessdate=2007-07-06|archive-date=2007-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930030755/http://www.enotes.com/salem-lit/lawson-fusao-inada|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==Career == He joined the faculty of [[Southern Oregon University]] in 1966. In 1994, Inada's ''Legends from Camp'' won an [[American Book Award]]; and he was awarded poetry fellowships from the [[National Endowment for the Arts]].<ref name=enotes/> In 2006 Inada was named Oregon's poet laureate.<ref name=loc>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/oregon.html|publisher=Library of Congress|title=Oregon State Poet Laureate|accessdate=2007-07-06}}</ref><ref name=oregonian>{{cite news|title=From internment camp to new poet laureate|last=Baker|firs