The Saigyo Awards for Tanka 2008
Deadline: In hand August 1, 2008
Prizes: First Prize: $100; Second Prize: $50; Third Prize: $25. Winners living outside the US will receive subscriptions to tanka journals in place of cash prizes.
Eligibility: Open to everyone.
Entry Fee: None.
Rules: All tanka must be the entrant's original, unpublished work, and not under consideration by any publication or other contest.
Submissions: Up to 10 tanka in English, typed (or printed legibly) on one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Submit 2 copies. Provide name, address and pen name, if you use one, in upper left corner of one copy only.
Correspondence: Send business size SASE (outside US, SAE and 1 IRC) for notification of results. No entries will be returned.
Mail entries to: Carolyn Thomas, 7866 Hogan Circle, Hemet, CA 92545 USA.
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Tanka Society of America 2008 International Tanka Competition — Call for Submission
Deadline: In hand, May 10th, 2008.
Eligibility: Open to all, members and non-members alike, except TSA officers and judges.
Regulations: Any number of tanka may be submitted.
Entries: Must be original, in English, unpublished, and not submitted for publication or to any other contest.
Entry Fee $1.00 per tanka, U.S. funds only. Please make checks/money orders payable to the "Tanka Society of America."
Submissions: Submit each tanka on three separate 3 x 5 inch cards, two with the tanka only (for anonymous judging), the third with the tanka and the author's name and address in the upper left-hand corner. Type or print neatly please. Submit entries and fees to: Carole MacRury, 1636 Edwards Drive, Point Roberts, WA 98281.
Awards: First prize: $100; Second Prize: $50; Third Prize: $25. Amount of prizes may be reduced if an insufficient number of entries are received. Winning poems will be published in Ribbons, the TSA journal.
Adjudication: The name(s) of the judge(s) will be announced after the contest.
Rights: All rights revert to the authors after publication.
Correspondence: Unfortunately, entries cannot be returned. Please send a business size SASE for answers to queries or for a list of winning entries. For foreign entries, send a SAE and US $1 cash.
Make checks/money orders payable to the "Tanka Society of America" and mail to Carole MacRury, 1636 Edwards Drive, Point Roberts, WA 98281.
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The Modern English Tanka Press website has spun off its periodicals to other websites.
The journals, Modern English Tanka and Atlas Poetica, as well as all the archived journals, e.g., Haiku Harvest, Haiku Noir, Ku Nouveau, etc., have all been moved to our web hub at WWW.SHORTVERSE.COM .
Modern Haiga is still at WWW.MODERNHAIGA.COM and Haiku Sansaar (in development) is at WWW.HAIKUSANSAAR.COM . Haiku Sansaar (Haiku World) is a bilingual Hindi-English haiku journal.
Tanka Central is also at WWW.SHORTVERSE.COM and we are including at the web hub some links to other resources, such as Tanka Online and Larry Kimmel's Cherita website.
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Leaving My Found Eden : A Poetography Exhibit
June 28 - July 27, 2008
Thursday – Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
James Gray Gallery
Bergamot Station Art Center
2525 Michigan Avenue, Bldg. D4
Santa Monica, California 90404
310 315 9502
www.jamesgraygallery.com
www.poetography.org
For several years, I have been working on an art form
that I call Poetography, merging English-language
tanka poetry with black & white photography. And this
summer I am going to have an exhibit of my Poetography
works in Santa Monica, California at the prestigious
James Gray Gallery at the Bergamot Station Art Center.
With Poetography, the tanka poetry is merged with the
photographic imagery to create a dynamic tension that
infuses new meanings into the words and images. I am
hoping that this show will promote English-language
tanka to a wider audience.
There is a gallery opening reception on June 28, from
6:00 to 9:00. I would like to invite all tanka lovers
to see the exhibit and, if they have time, to come to
the reception.
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Call for Submissions
Modern English Tanka
Issue Vol. 2, No. 4. Summer 2008
You are invited to submit tanka for the Summer 2008 issue of Modern English Tanka. The submission deadline is May 15, 2008. Submissions will NOT close earlier than the deadline.
Modern English Tanka is a quarterly journal—both a print literary journal and a digital online magazine—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English tanka (including tanka written in cinquain and cinqku set forms). 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. In addition to verse, we publish articles, essays, book notes & reviews, interviews, letters to the editor, etc., related to tanka.
MET specializes in single tanka but tanka in sets and sequences will be considered as well. Collaborative tanka sequences are not wanted. While 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.modernenglishtanka.com/ Editor: Denis M. Garrison. Contributing Editor: Michael McClintock. Email up to 40 tanka, or email articles, reviews, essays, letters to the editor, etc., to the Editor at SUBMISSIONS (at) MODERNENGLISHTANKA (dot) COM. Before submitting, please read the detailed submission guidelines on the website at http://www.modernenglishtankapress.com/MET/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) and an online digital edition.
Thank you for sharing this call widely.
Sincerely,
Editors, Modern English Tanka
http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/
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Tanka Society of America 2008 International Tanka Competition — Call for Submission
Deadline: In hand, May 10th, 2008.
Eligibility: Open to all, members and non-members alike, except TSA officers and judges.
Regulations: Any number of tanka may be submitted.
Entries: Must be original, in English, unpublished, and not submitted for publication or to any other contest.
Entry Fee $1.00 per tanka, U.S. funds only. Please make checks/money orders payable to the "Tanka Society of America."
Submissions: Submit each tanka on three separate 3 x 5 inch cards, two with the tanka only (for anonymous judging), the third with the tanka and the author's name and address in the upper left-hand corner. Type or print neatly please. Submit entries and fees to: Carole MacRury, 1636 Edwards Drive, Point Roberts, WA 98281.
Awards: First prize: $100; Second Prize: $50; Third Prize: $25. Amount of prizes may be reduced if an insufficient number of entries are received. Winning poems will be published in Ribbons, the TSA journal.
Adjudication: The name(s) of the judge(s) will be announced after the contest.
Rights: All rights revert to the authors after publication.
Correspondence: Unfortunately, entries cannot be returned. Please send a business size SASE for answers to queries or for a list of winning entries. For foreign entries, send a SAE and US $1 cash.
Make checks/money orders payable to the "Tanka Society of America" and mail to Carole MacRury, 1636 Edwards Drive, Point Roberts, WA 98281.
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Call for Submissions — March 2008
ATLAS POETICA:
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka
ISSN 1939-6465
Issue 2, 2008
ATLAS POETICA : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka is off to an excellent start, with #1 available now. The journal will publish an 8.5" x 11" format of tanka/waka/kyoka and its variants, as well as sets and sequences, two times a year. All poems will be poetry of place, in other words, poetry in which the natural or cultural place plays a role. Atlas Poetica aims at poetry in which the external and internal environments are connected, and which shows the diversity of the natural world and human experience. Tanka in both traditional and innovative forms are welcome, as are submissions in languages other than English as long as they are accompanied by English translation. Poets should send up to 40 poems that have never been published and which are not on consideration elsewhere. Atlas Poetica has the capacity to publish longer sequences or prose work, but prefers to be queried first. Non-fiction articles, book reviews, announcements, and other articles of interest to the readers of tanka poetry of place are welcome. International announcements can be in any language and need not be accompanied by English translation. For complete guidelines, visit AtlasPoetica.com. Reading window for Atlas Poetica 2: 1 March - 31 May, 2008.
Atlas Poetica is edited by M. Kei, who edited the anthology, Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart, and showcases previously unpublished tanka in English and English translation from around the world. The Atlas welcomes individual tanka and sets and sequences that are deeply steeped in the human and natural landscape, reflecting the particularities of life as it is lived in all its splendid interconnections. Atlas Poetica believes that diversity, locality, tradition, innovation, and a keen sense of the awareness of the web that binds the internal and external environments together is the essence from which poetry springs. It is by connecting with this place, this moment, and these experiences of life that we achieve deep insight and appreciation for ourselves, our neighbors, and our world. “Sense of place is not just something that people know and feel, it is something people do.”—Albert Camus
Before submitting poetry, please carefully read the complete guidelines which are available at www.atlaspoetica/submit.html along with information regarding rights sought, schedules, deadlines, and more. Submissions and inquiries may be sent to the editor at: submissions (at) AtlasPoetica (dot) com.
For further information contact:
M. Kei, Editor, Atlas Poetica
AtlasPoetica (at) gmail (dot) com
or visit: AtlasPoetica.com
Please share widely and forward to all appropriate forums.
M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka
AtlasPoetica.com
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Ash Moon Anthology: Poems on Aging in Modern English Tanka Published by Modern English Tanka Press
Ash Moon Anthology explores and celebrates the later years of life: the "golden years," to some, and far from it, to others. Senior men and women have a perspective on life that cannot be achieved except by enduring the passage of several decades. Just as youth and the fullness of maturity are celebrated for their special characteristics, so should be our later years. Ash Moon Anthology includes poems about all aspects of aging, both the ups and downs, the joys and the sorrows; poems that embody the humor, insight, and wisdom of our elders and the ways in which we age with grace and even elegance. This is a tremendous collection of nearly nine hundred poems on aging from 97 poets on five continents.
Baltimore, Maryland – March 7, 2008 – Ash Moon Anthology: Poems on Aging in Modern English Tanka, the fourth in a series of new wave tanka anthologies, has been published by Modern English Tanka Press of Baltimore, Maryland. It is perhaps the largest anthology of tanka written in English yet published with nearly nine hundred poems by ninety-seven poets on five continents. It follows the prior volumes in this series: The Five-Hole Flute, The Dreaming Room, and Landfall. Ash Moon Anthology is edited by Alexis Rotella and Denis M. Garrison.
"‘May you be awake one moment before you die’ The Buddha said. If readers can absorb the joy and the intensity of this book, they will be more alive than ever before in their lives. I am stunned by the precision of emotions and the variety of feelings. I want to read one page each day, to be in touch with everything that is truly, vividly alive." —Grace Cavalieri, Producer/host, The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress
"The Zen aesthetic of wabi-sabi demonstrates the recognition that things are often more beautiful, more treasured, more emotionally significant when they are somewhat broken, slightly worn out, aged by human use, subject to the natural laws of decay or uniquely unfinished. In the Ash Moon Anthology, contemporary tanka poets explore the aesthetics of aging, the wabi-sabi of the human experience. These tanka examine the feelings and psychological insights that can only come with a lifetime of surviving into old age, when we recognize the impermanence and transitory nature of our bodies, our minds, our selves. These English tanka of aging celebrate and explore a wide range of moments conveying the feelings of being fully alive in our imperfect, broken, unfinished bodies, minds and souls." —Dr. Randy Brooks, Millikin University
"Age. It happens to us all. Advertisements inform us that we can be sexual athletes at ninety, if only we buy the magic cure and follow the exercise guru’s advice. Yet the evidence of our own lives is decidedly more human, more problematic, and full of petty perfidies. Age is not simply the prolongation of our youth with the help of a little dye to hide the grey hair but a fundamental process of transformation. We change, and as we change, we are haunted or enlivened by the past we carry with us. Understanding all that we are and have experienced is difficult enough, but communicating it to others is even harder, especially when the gap is dramatic as the one separating today’s youth from today’s elders. This is the chasm which the poets of Ash Moon cross. Nearly a hundred in number, they are themselves aging or the care-givers and companions of elders. With unblinking honesty they record their age as it is lived—despair and dereliction alongside grace and humor—and what emerges is a true portrait of age with all its awkward complexities.
"Readers of Ash Moon will find all these poems written in a fitting form, namely, ‘tanka,’ the eldest of poetic forms. The oldest continuously anthologized poetry in the world (compared to which the venerable sonnet is a mere stripling), tanka has been the vehicle by which poets ancient and modern have given voice to the myriad beauties and burdens of their lives. The result is a series of snapshots without commentary, allowing the readers to directly experience the poets’ vision. They will find much that resonates with them, and much to reflect on. The ash moon hangs over all our heads." — M. Kei, Editor of Atlas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka, Editor-in-chief of Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka of 2008, and author of Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay.
For media inquiries or to arrange an interview with the editors, contact: Alexis Rotella by e-mail at rengagirl (at) yahoo (dot) com or Denis M. Garrison at dmg (at) themetpress (dot) com. Publisher information at: www.modernenglishtankapress.com.
This book is available from www.Lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and from major booksellers; or by order from the publisher. Complete information and mail order form are available online at www.modernenglishtankapress.com. Price: $29.95 USD. ISBN 978-0-6151-9641-1. Trade paperback. 312 pages, 6.00" x 9.00", perfect binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 100# exterior paper, full-color exterior ink. There is also a hard cover with dust jacket: Price: $44.95 USD. ISBN 978-0-6151-9642-8.
About Modern English Tanka Press:
Modern English Tanka Press is an independent equity publishing house in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to producing books and periodicals of lasting literary value. A family business, we treat our customers and partners in publishing like family. Our publications are produced using modern print-on-demand production and distribution methods. We publish tanka, haiku, and other fine poetry. Our special mission is to promote the tanka form of poetry, to educate newcomers to tanka about this most ancient poetic form, and to work for wider publication of tanka in both specialty and mainstream poetry venues. To those ends, we publish the journals "Modern English Tanka," "Atlas Poetica," "Modern Haiga," and special edition books of tanka, haiku, and other fine verse. We operate www.TankaCentral.com, the internet megasite for tanka, with its popular "Tanka News" blog, and the poetry web hub, www.ShortVerse.com.
Contact:
Denis M. Garrison, owner
Modern English Tanka Press
443-802-1249
Email to dmg (at) themetpress (dot) com.
www.modernenglishtankapress.com www.modernenglishtanka.com www.atlaspoetica.com
www.shortverse.com www.tankacentral.com www.tankanews.com www.modernhaiga.com
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Cigarette Butts and Lilacs : tokens of a heritage by Andrew Riutta Published by Modern English Tanka Press
With a rusty shovel in hand, Andrew Riutta digs deep in his first full-length poetry collection and exposes the bones of the Upper Midwest—which turn out to be his very own. From diabetes and broken teeth to silent prayers and the scent of wood smoke, Cigarette Butts and Lilacs is an account of a domesticity touched by this world’s sharpest corners, as well as its softest petals and snowflakes.
Baltimore, Maryland – March 2, 2008 – Modern English Tanka Press has published the first full-length collection of the poetry of Andrew Riutta, an important rising star amongst poets of the American mid-west.
"The ‘metro-male’ of Montreal, New York City or Los Angeles has nothing over the refinements of this unhorsed, chain smoking samurai of rural, blue-collar America." —Michael McClintock
"Here is post-Americana at its best. Using the newly developing east/west aesthetic of the 21st century, Riutta has found the exact language match to his midwestern, blue-jeaned environment. In Cigarette Butts and Lilacs, the feel of a culture runs like soil through your fingers." —Larry Kimmel, editor of Winfred Press
"Riutta ranks high among the very best of contemporary tanka poets. His poetic sense of place, his self-assurance and acute knowledge of the character of rural midwestern America make this book invaluable." —Kirsty Karkow
About Author:
Andrew Riutta was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He currently resides in the Cedar Valley region of Grand Traverse County, where he and his daughter, Issabella, spend their days laughing as loudly as they can along the fertile banks of a quiet river.
For media inquiries or to arrange an interview with the author, contact: Andrew Riutta by e-mail at andrewriutta (at) yahoo (dot) com. Publisher information at: www.modernenglishtankapress.com.
This book is available from www.Lulu.com/modernenglishtanka and from major booksellers; or by order from the publisher. Complete information and mail order form are available online at www.modernenglishtankapress.com. Price: $16.95 USD. ISBN 978-0-6151-9445-5. Trade paperback. 100 pages, 6.00" x 9.00", perfect binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 100# exterior paper, full-color exterior ink.
About Modern English Tanka Press:
Modern English Tanka Press is an independent equity publishing house in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to producing books and periodicals of lasting literary value. A family business, we treat our customers and partners in publishing like family. Our publications are produced using modern print-on-demand production and distribution methods. We publish tanka, haiku, and other fine poetry. Our special mission is to promote the tanka form of poetry, to educate newcomers to tanka about this most ancient poetic form, and to work for wider publication of tanka in both specialty and mainstream poetry venues. To those ends, we publish the journals "Modern English Tanka," "Atlas Poetica," "Modern Haiga," and special edition books of tanka, haiku, and other fine verse. We operate www.TankaCentral.com, the internet megasite for tanka, with its popular "Tanka News" blog, and the poetry web hub, www.ShortVerse.com.
Contact:
Denis M. Garrison, owner
Modern English Tanka Press
443-802-1249
Email to dmg (at) themetpress (dot) com.
www.modernenglishtankapress.com www.modernenglishtanka.com www.atlaspoetica.com
www.shortverse.com www.tankacentral.com www.tankanews.com www.modernhaiga.com
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