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The Tanka Society of America has brought out its December 2007 issue of Ribbons, and it’s filled with book reviews, articles, announcements, and over 200 poems that represent some of the finest tanka being written today. “. . . if the poet writes poetry to be read, there is a great creative freedom in knowing that the reader does not ask for a poem to be a strict rendition of factual truth; the reader asks only that the poem speak truth that is timeless; for only such truth can be called beauty, and it’s for beauty that we read poetry.”