Tomoyuki Endo is an assistant professor at Wako University in Tokyo, teaching poets of so-called “Pound Tradition,” and modern and contemporary Japanese poets such as Junzaburo Nishiwaki, Katsue Kitasono and Kazuko Shiraishi and others along with pop artists Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, John Lennon and others. He is a co-translator of Shiraishi’s three long poems with Forrest Gander in My Floating Mother, City. He contributed an essay in English on the relationship between Pound / Kitasono / Shuri Kido to Ezra Pound Review for the 2022 issue.
