MET Press has re-issued the three in-print titles of poetry by Denis M. Garrison as pocket paperbacks. Both more portable and less expensive than the trade paperback editions, these make Garrison's work accessible to more readers.

Hidden River, Garrison's second collection of haiku, is priced at $11.95.

Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir is priced at $10.95.

Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems, free and formal verse, is priced at $12.95.
It was selected for the "Best Books for Summer Reading, 2008" by The Montserrat Review.

Garrison's first collection of haiku, Eight Shades of Blue, after three editions, has been posted at www.Scribd.com for free reading and downloading; it has been taken out of print.

MET Press:   http://www.themetpress.com/bookstore/books.html  

MET Press at Lulu.com:   http://stores.lulu.com/modernenglishtanka

        

The Summer issue of PRUNE JUICE: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka has been published online and in print and ebook editions. Check out the new issue at www.prunejuicejournal.com !

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for
PRUNE JUICE No. 3, Winter 2010: JOURNAL OF SENRYU AND KYOKA

www.prunejuicejournal.com

You are invited to submit senryu and/or kyoka for the next issue of Prune Juice, Winter 2010. Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka is a biannual journal—a print literary journal, an ebook, and a digital online magazine—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English senryu and kyoka. Selection Criteria: Senryu generally emphasize human foibles and frailties, usually satirically, ironically, humorously. Season words are not necessary nor usual in senryu. Kyoka have a different history than senryu; nevertheless, for modern kyoka in English, the definition is similar: a poem in the tanka form but with the satirical, ironic, humorous aspects of senryu. We are looking for fresh works, not clichéd poems. Wit is highly appreciated, as well as insight. We appreciate a wide range of both genres, from the gently humorous to the most wicked satire. Our tastes run towards the wicked end of the scale, but all sorts are welcome, with these exceptions: No pornographic, gross, scatological, bigoted, or hateful poems; no personal attacks on private or public persons. All selection decisions will be made at the sole discretion of the editor.

Submissions for Prune Juice 3, Winter 2010 are open from now until December 15, 2009. The Winter issue publishes January 1, 2010. Submissions do not close before the announced date. The digital issue will be posted online just before the print and ebook editions go to press. We publish in the print edition, that is, 4.25" x 6.87" paperback pocket book, in a PDF ebook format, and in the online digital edition.

NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Please do not submit anything on offer anywhere else. We are not in the market for works under consideration for publication elsewhere.

NOT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED: We primarily seek to publish fine senryu and kyoka that have not been previously published. Each poet is personally responsible for noting in the submission any previous publication of any submitted work.

HOW TO SUBMIT FOR PRUNE JUICE. You may submit up to ten senryu and/or ten kyoka at one time. We may publish as few as 1 or 2 poems or a larger number. Please do NOT send us works that are still in work. Please send us polished works, error-free. Make your submission by sending your poems in to Prune Juice in the body of an email. Do NOT send any attachments. Emails with attachments will be deleted. If you need clarification, or have a special situation you want to discuss, please feel free to write to the Editor at submissions@prunejuicejournal.com

SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO SUBMISSIONS@PRUNEJUICEJOURNAL.COM

PLEASE DO NOT SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ANY OTHER ADDRESS.

WHAT TO SUBMIT. Prune Juice needs the following information: 1. Contributor Note: include your full name and your residential location (city, State/Province, and country). 2. Your email address (will not be routinely included in the published Contributor Note). 3. If you are younger than 16 years of age, tell us so that we may comply with the U.S.A. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (the COPPA applies to children under 13; our minimum age limit is 16 as a matter of editorial policy - you must be 16 or older to submit anything to Prune Juice). 4. The submission itself.

THERE IS NO PAYMENT FOR CONTRIBUTORS. No payment will be made. No contributor copies are furnished free.

CONTRIBUTOR’S RESPONSIBILITIES. If you choose to submit any work(s) for publication in Prune Juice, please read and familiarize yourself with the complete Submission Guidelines available online at: http://www.themetpress.com/prunejuicejournal/submit.html, as well as our Copyright, Privacy, and Editorial Policies. By submitting any work(s) to Prune Juice, you are representing to Prune Juice and its editor and publisher that you have the copyright to the work(s) and you are permitting Prune Juice copyrights in accordance with Prune Juice’s published Copyright Policy, and that you hold Prune Juice and its editor and publisher harmless in all respects from any copyright infringement caused by your submission.

Please send us your best senryu and kyoka!

Thank you for sharing this call widely.

Sincerely,
Alexis Rotella, Editor
Prune Juice: Journal of Senryu and Kyoka
Email: submissions@prunejuicejournal.com

http://www.prunejuicejournal.com/

        

MET 12, Summer 2009, has been published in print and digital editions. The print edition and the PDF ebook are on sale now. The HTML version is posted online at www.modernenglishtanka.com .  This new issue includes 67 poets and is very full with wonderful new tanka and reviews. Check it out now!

 

Call for Submissions Modern English Tanka

Issue Vol. 4, No. 1. Autumn 2009 — PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGED ONLINE GUIDELINES!

You are invited to submit tanka for the Autumn 2009 issue of Modern English Tanka. The submission deadline is August 15, 2009. Submissions will NOT close earlier than the deadline.

Modern English Tanka is a quarterly journal—a print literary journal, a PDF ebook, and a digital online magazine—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English tanka. We are interested in both traditional and innovative verse of high quality and in all serious attempts to assimilate the best of the Japanese waka/tanka genres into a continuously developing English short verse tradition.

MET specializes in single tanka. Please do not submit sets or sequences. The five-line criterion is generally definitive for tanka. MET will consider variant forms on an individual basis (like everything else!). Serious poetry and adult themes are appreciated. Doggerel and anything that is pornographic or in any way nasty, hateful, bigoted, or partisan political, will not be accepted. All such judgments will be made at the sole discretion of the editor.

Previously unpublished work, not on offer elsewhere, is solicited.

Modern English Tanka, Baltimore, Maryland USA. Website: www.themetpress.com/MET/ Editor: Denis M. Garrison. Contributing Editor: Michael McClintock. Email up to 20 tanka to the Editor at SUBMISSIONS@MODERNENGLISHTANKA.COM Before submitting, please read the detailed submission guidelines on the website at http://www.modernenglishtankapress.com/metsubmit.html. Modern English Tanka looks for top quality tanka in natural, modern English idiom. No payment for publication. No contributor copies. Publishes a print edition (6" x 9" trade paperback) plus a PDF ebook and an online HTML digital edition.

Thank you for sharing this call widely.

Sincerely,
Editors, Modern English Tanka
http://www.themetpress.com/MET/

 

        

 Call for Submissions

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose

Issue 2. Winter 2009

You are invited to submit haibun and tanka prose for the Winter 2009 issue of Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose. The submission deadline is September 30, 2009. Submissions will NOT close earlier than the deadline.

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose is a biannual journal—a print literary journal, a PDF ebook, and a digital online magazine—dedicated to the publication and promotion of fine English haibun and tanka prose. We seek traditional and innovative haibun and tanka prose of high quality and desire to assimilate the best of these Japanese genres into a continuously evolving English tradition. In addition to haibun and tanka prose, we publish articles, essays, book reviews and interviews pertinent to these same genres.

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose specializes in fine haibun and tanka prose. All selection decisions will be made at the sole discretion of the editor.

Previously unpublished work, not on offer elsewhere, is solicited.

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, Baltimore, Maryland USA. Website: www.themetpress.com/modernhaibunandtankaprose/ Editor: Jeffrey Woodward. Email up to five haibun, five tanka prose, and five short works to the Editor at MHTP(dot)EDITOR(at)GMAIL(dot)COM . Before submitting, please read the detailed submission guidelines and haibun and tanka prose selection criteria on the website at www.themetpress.com/modernhaibunandtankaprose/submit.html. Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose looks for top quality haibun and tanka prose in natural, modern English idiom. No payment for publication. No contributor copies. Publishes a print edition (6" x 9" trade paperback), a PDF ebook, and an online digital edition.

Thank you for sharing this call widely.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey Woodward, Editor, Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose

        

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New Haiga Journal to Launch July 1: Daily Haiga

        

For Immediate Release-

        

MET Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new journal. The premiere issue of the biannual journal, Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, edited by Jeffrey Woodward, has been published in print, in PDF ebook, and in an online digital edition. This Summer 2009 issue is 184 pages in a trade paperback. ISSN 1947-606X.

Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, with this inaugural issue, establishes itself as the first and only periodical devoted exclusively to these two mixed prose-and-verse genres. Haibun and tanka prose belong to the ancient and venerable tradition of Japanese poetry and belles-lettres. Their practice has waned in modern Japan but, with the continuing popularity of their respective parent-forms, haiku and tanka, in the West, haibun and tanka prose are experiencing unprecedented growth and diverse experimentation from New York to London, from Berlin to Brisbane, and in small towns and open countryside around the globe.  Haibun and tanka prose are busily revising the general literary map and, in doing so, quietly reforming haiku and tanka also. Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, a biannual journal, faithfully represents the full range of styles and themes adopted by contemporary practitioners and intends to play a vanguard role in charting the rapid evolution of these genres.

Check out Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose at http://www.themetpress.com/modernhaibunandtankaprose/masthead.html

For more information, contact the editor, Jeffrey Woodward, at MHTP.EDITOR@GMAIL.COM    

        

MET Press is always trying to improve our products and services for our readers and authors. A recent development is that the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association (MBPA) has accepted MET Press as a publisher-member. The MBPA is the main regional trade group for independent presses on the central east coast.

We have also developed a new web-presence on the excellent Scribd website. Check out www.scribd.com/dmgarrison where you will see the Tanka Teachers Guide is getting wide attention. I have posted some of my own older titles there for free access. This website is very useful for attracting avid readers to the MET Press website.
 
If you have not already seen them, check out our Author Pages at www.themetpress.com/bookstore/authors.html .

MET Press has several fine authors and poets participating as equity authors. So that we can continue to give them the personal attention and service they deserve, we are now not soliciting or accepting any new equity authors, at least until all the books in our publishing pipeline have been completed. And, by the way, there are some great new titles in the pipeline!

best wishes,
Denis M. Garrison
MET Press www.themetpress.com

        

        

DATE: May 18, 2009            PRESS RELEASE
                                           For Immediate Release

A Poetic Guide to an Ancient Capital: Aizu Yaichi and the City of Nara by Michael F. Marra, Published by MET Press

A Poetic Guide to an Ancient Capital: Aizu Yaichi and the City of Nara by Michael F. Marra includes the English translation of all the poetry that the poet, aesthetician and art historian Aizu Yaichi (1881-1956) wrote on the city of Nara and the Nara Basin. Readers of this book will continue Aizu’s legacy by keeping alive the ancient heart of what is today the most classical of Japan’s super-modern cities.

Baltimore, Maryland – May 18, 2009 – A Poetic Guide to an Ancient Capital: Aizu Yaichi and the City of Nara by Michael F. Marra has been published as a letter-size paperback by MET Press of Baltimore, Maryland. This book includes the English translation of all the poetry that the poet, aesthetician and art historian Aizu Yaichi (1881-1956) wrote on the city of Nara and the Nara Basin during his many trips to the ancient capital from 1908 until he died in 1956. Most poems come from Aizu’s poetic collections Nankyō Shinshō (New Songs from the Southern Capital, 1924) and Rokumeishū (The Deer’s Cry, 1940). Together with the philosopher Watsuji Tetsurō’s (1889-1960) best-seller Koji Junrei (Pilgrimage to Ancient Temples, 1919), Aizu’s poetry is undoubtedly the most influential writing on the city of Nara in the twentieth century. His efforts to preserve the monuments of the ancient city were powerful contributors to the establishment of Nara as a cultural icon in the modern age. It is not unusual today to see one of Aizu’s poems inscribed on a stone monument in front of major temples, usually in the author’s unmistakable calligraphic style. Today, over more than half a century after his death, he is still remembered fondly by natives of Nara who proudly display in their houses scrolls of Aizu’s poetry.

These poems are Aizu’s homage to the city’s world-renown monuments—temples, shrines, statues as well as famous natural sites. They are an encouragement to readers to include Nara in their visits to Japan, and discover the beauty of ancient times. Travelers to the ancient capital should bring this book along, and write their own poems as they admire the landmarks of Japan’s first capital. Aizu was a distinguished poet with a deep knowledge of the eighth-century language of Nara—a language immortalized in the first anthology of Japanese verses, the Man’yōshū (Then Thousand Leaves, 759), which Aizu knew by heart. He recreated in the twentieth century a language that was silent for over a thousand years, restoring life and passion to a past otherwise confined to libraries and museums. Readers of this book will continue Aizu’s legacy by keeping alive the ancient heart of what is today the most classical of Japan’s super-modern cities.

About Author:

Michael F. Marra is a professor of Japanese literature, aesthetics, and hermeneutics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served on the faculties of Osaka University of Foreign Studies, University of Tokyo, University of Kyoto, and University of Southern California. Among his publications are The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature (1991); Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan (1993); Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader (1999); A History of Modern Japanese Aesthetics (2001); Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation (2002); Kuki Shūzō: A Philosopher’s Poetry and Poetics (2004); The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey (2007); and Seasons and Landscapes in Japanese Poetry: An Introduction to Haiku and Waka (2008). Among his most popular lectures at UCLA is a course dealing with readings and interpretations of poetry by Western and Japanese philosophers. Professor Marra was chosen by the Governor of the Nara Prefecture as goodwill ambassador for the celebrations in 2010 of the 1300th anniversary of the foundation of Nara as capital of the ancient Yamato state (710-2010).

For media inquiries or to arrange an interview with the author, contact Michael F. Marra by e-mail  at marra@humnet.ucla.edu  Publisher information at: www.themetpress.com  

This book is available from www.Lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and from the publisher. Complete information and mail/email order forms are available online at www.themetpress.com  Price: $25.95 USD. ISBN 978-1-935398-07-3. Letter-size paperback. 164 pages, 8.5" x 11.5", perfect binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 100# exterior paper, full-color exterior ink.

About MET Press:

MET Press (Modern English Tanka Press) is an independent publishing house in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to producing books and periodicals of lasting literary value, especially poetry. A family business, we treat our customers and partners in publishing like family. We use modern print-on-demand production and distribution methods. Our special mission is to promote the tanka form of poetry and to educate newcomers about this most ancient poetic form.

Contact:

Denis M. Garrison, owner
MET Press / Modern English Tanka Press
443-802-1249
Email to dmg@themetpress.com
www.themetpress.com
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