Patrick Donnelly
Patrick Donnelly’s collection of poems is The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003). He is an Associate Editor at Four Way Books, and has taught at Colby College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Massachusetts Review. With Stephen D. Miller he has translated the 16th-century Japanese Nō
play Shunzei Tadanori.
Stephen D. Miller
Stephen D. Miller is assistant professor of Japanese language and literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is translator of A Pilgrim’s Guide to Forty-Six Temples (Weatherhill Inc., 1990), and editor of Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature (Gay Sunshine Press, 1996). He lived in Japan for nine years between 1980 and 1999, in part as the recipient of two Japan Foundation fellowships for research abroad. He is currently working on a study of the Buddhist poetry in the Japanese imperial poetry anthologies.
Donnelly and Miller’s translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Circumference, Metamorphoses, The Marlboro Review, thedrunkenboat.com, Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem, and Translations and Transformations: the Heike Monogatari in Nō.
Former Grand Archbishop Kakuchū
Former Grand Archbishop Kakuchū was born in 1118 and died in 1177. He became the Grand Abbot of Enryaku-ji Temple of the Tendai sect of Japanese Buddhism and lived on Mt. Hiei near present-day Kyōto. Twelve of his poems are included in the imperial poetry anthologies.
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