PR: For Pandora VIII
Pandora books are the place from which poets with any nationalities can publish to diver their poems, essays, and so on, with any works, like photos and paintings, to poets and writers in the international world. The genre ranges from tanka or haiku poems, free verses, essays, o the artistic works, like photos, pictures, and calligraphy. The original purposewas to keep publishing international anthologies in any languages and in any areas, crossing borders and kinds of walls of any kinds. It has almost been being achieved and, our next orientation is then to dedicate ourselves much and more, to the international peace and love. Pandora books include Noriko Mizusaki and her works, Haruo Fujita, Aomori Poet, Edward Levinson, US & Japan Poet who is living in Chiba, japan, now, and Scott Watson, US & Japan poet, living now in Sendai, with his famimily. Others: Naoshi Koriyama, Nobuo Akiba, Akihide Nakao, Keiichiro Fujitani, Yumiko Yamamoto, Somoko Yasumori, Jun Hataraki, Nachiko Watanabe, Preety Sengupta (India-US), Yaxin Melchy, Angela Bong from Malaysia, Shigeo Yanase, Takaaki Oka, Shizuka Tsuruta, Akira Iwai, Yoichi Sasaki, Hisaharu Sasaki, Kozabro Nagatsu, Jun Hataraki, Yoriko Niitani, Megumi Watanabe, Koichi Uematsu, Hisao Syzuki, Naoshi Koriyama, eta. TjHe series of books include Hiroshima and Nagasaki poems and ports.
Profile of Noriko Mizusaki
Born in Tokyo, Japan. She is a translator, essayist, poet, and a poet of tanka and haiku. She is acting as a chief editor of PANDORA Books, annual. She graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, in the first Literature faculty, majoring in UK & US literature. She studied at the English Studies, in the master course to gain the degree and finished the doctor course. She had one year living and studing in Boston, Massachusetts, attending a seminar of the graduate class, in Harvard University. She experienced so many travels and attended poetry festivals international, as well as domestic.
Books co-edited: Kazue Shinkawa & Noriko Mizusaki/ From Aunties to Children(1): A Gift of Bouquet of Poems (2018, BookWay), Kazuko Shiraishi & Noriko Mizusaki/ From Aunties to Children(2): A Gift of Singing Poems (2021, Academic Research Publication).
Collected Tanka Poems: A Long Travel to Horyuji-Temple (2022, Academic Research Publication)
Translation Book into Japanese: Sally Ito, "The Emperor's Orphans: the first chapter" (2022, Academic Research Publication)
Memberships: California POV Zoom, in USA, Japan Poets Club, Japan Pen Club.
Prizes: Oki-island Emperor Gotoba Memorial prize, In Tokyo-Seoul-Beijing Thee Cities Mayers’ Prize for Peace Achievements. The Golden Crown for the Poet of Laureate in Osaka, Japan: in 2014 UPLI/ WCP.
Her PR: The Emperors Orphans (Her Latest Translation published in Japanese) and The Long Travel to Horyuji-Temple (Her Recent Best Waka Poems)
Noriko Mizusaki HP: http://www1.odn.ne.jp/ ~Cat 32320. Facebook: Noriko Mizusaki & 水崎野里子
