Yoko Danno will be giving the following readings in the Washington, DC area in support of her new book of collaborative poetry The Blue Door.

In this collaboration across time zones and cultures, two poets, American and Japanese, explore the process of invoking the Muse. Strangers collect white pebbles only to discover they are primordial mates.

Yoko Danno was born, raised, and educated in Japan.  A graduate of Kobe College, she has been writing poetry solely in English for more than 40 years.  In addition to being a poet, she is also a playwright, translator, and the editor-in-chief of the Ikuta Press in Kobe, Japan.  Her poetry has been published in various journals, anthologies, and magazines in the US, Canada, and Japan, and she is the author of four books of poetry, including Epitaph for Memories published in 2002 by the Bunny and Crocodile Press.  Her fifth book of poetry--a jointly-written poetic experiment with the American poet James C. Hopkins, entitled The Blue Door--will be published in May of 2006 by The Word Works press in Washington, DC.