Tanka Online at www.tankaonline.com, is now featuring guest poet, Laura Maffei, the founding editor of the print journal, American Tanka, and whose first collection of tanka, drops from her umbrella, was released in 2006. Visit soon to read Laura’s tanka and an insightful interview about her experience as both a poet and a leader in the tanka movement in the West.

Tanka Online is a website teaching poets new to the form how to write tanka.  A collaborative effort by poets Jeanne Emrich, Michael McClintock, Tom Clausen, Margaret Chula (all of the USA), Amelia Fielden (Australia) and Mariko Kitakubo (Japan), it features essays and articles on writing and appreciating tanka, a tanka gallery, recommended reading, and more.