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Ono Tōzaburō (1903 - 1996) was a poet, anarchist, and literary theorist from Osaka, Japan. As a young poet, he was affiliated with the avant-garde journal, Red and Black (aka to kuro), and was arrested in 1935 under the Peace Preservation Law. He later founded the Osaka Literature School (osaka bungaku gakkou) in 1952, where he taught youth and graduate poetry classes until shortly before his death in 1996.

Joe Rupprecht is a poet and translator. He lives in Oakland, CA. His work can be found in Spoon River Poetry Review, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Petrichor, Tripwire, Full Stop, and elsewhere.