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.