Yoko Danno

Yoko Danno is a Japanese, living in Kobe. She writes poetry solely in English. Many of her poems have appeared internationally in anthologies, magazines and online-journals. She is the author of several poetry books and chapbooks, including "Epitaph for memories" (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press, Washington, D.C., 2002), "The Blue Door," a collaboration with James C. Hopkins (The Word Works, Washington, D.C., 2006), and "trilogy & Hagoromo: A Celestial Robe" (The Ikuta Press, Kobe, 2010). Her English translation of Japanese myth and verse, "Songs and Stories of the Kojiki," compiled in the 8th century, was published by Ahadada Books (Toronto/Tokyo, 2008). "a sleeping tiger dreams of manhattan: poetry, photographs and sound" by Danno, Hopkins, and Bernard Stoltz (The Ikuta Press, 2008) was translated into Latvian and published by Mansards Publishing House(Riga, 2012). A new collection of her poems, "AQUAMARINE," was published by Glass Lyre Press, LLC, and the revised second edition of "Songs and Stories of the Kojiki" was published by Red Moon Press/ www.redmoonpress.com/catalog/. Her latest collection of poems was published by Isobar Press (2016) / http://isobarpress.com/

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