Tanka poetry of place embodies the community and environment, both human and natural, through which the poet travels. Groups... More > and places are profoundly important, forming the affective and effective boundaries of the poet's psyche. Whether contemplating subjects as diverse as a Greyhound bus or a Mexican rodeo, tanka poets find connection, meaning, and significance in the previously unremarked proximities of our lives. Tanka poets of place are pushing into new territories and creating new maps of our literary consciousness. < Less

Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, is a startlingly moving look into the heart of the poet and the incomparable... More > beauty of the Chesapeake Bay. Author M. Kei, editor of the critically acclaimed 'Fire Pearls,' issues his first collection of poetry, focussing on the Chesapeake Bay area. Composed while crewing aboard one of the last skipjacks on the bay, and living and working on the Bay's shores, each poem is a loving portrait of life and loss at the Head of the Bay. < Less

Catzilla! Tanka, Kyoka, and Gogyoshi About Cats is an anthology of short five lines poems about the feline companions in our... More > lives -- funny, friendly, or tragic, these short poems are portraits of cats who have let us share their lives. < Less

Now entering its fourth year, Atlas Poetica is one of the most prestigious journals publishing contemporary tanka in... More > English. With its focus on place, it provides a welcoming environment for international tanka as well as tanka from Anglophone communities around the world. It is at the forefront of innovation in tanka and related forms such as kyoka, gogyoshi, tanka prose, sets and sequences, shaped tanka, responsive tanka, and other developments in the field of tanka literature. Within its generous pages it provides room for book reviews, non-fiction articles, and resources that deepen the understanding and appreciation for this infinitely flexible, yet enduring, literature. < Less

Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka is dedicated to promoting tanka from around the world.... More > ATPO 7 furthers that goal by presenting an entire issue to tanka in translation. Tanka in Innu, English, German, Dutch, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Romanian, Lithuanian, Chinese, Japanese, Twi, Fante, Ewe, and Luganda, along with articles, reviews, and a list of international resources are included. Some of the voices in ATPO 7 are well-known but gain resonance when speaking languages other than English. Other voices are unknown and represent fresh and different approaches to tanka. Together they illustrate the extraordinary suppleness of tanka. Nothing is exempt from the poet's eye. Technology, baobab trees, and kisses intermingle. < Less

One of the most prestigious journals of tanka in English expands by specifically including gogyohka, the five line form... More > derived from tanka, as well as increasing its page count from 72 to 84 pages. Maintaining its focus on tanka poetry of place, Atlas Poetica is a true poetic atlas with poetry, articles, and reviews from poets around the world. < Less

Tanka poetry of place embodies the community and environment, both human and natural, through which the poet travels. Groups... More > and places are profoundly important, forming the affective and effective boundaries of the poet's psyche. Whether contemplating subjects as diverse as a Greyhound bus or a Mexican rodeo, tanka poets find connection, meaning, and significance in the previously unremarked proximities of our lives. Tanka poets of place are pushing into new territories and creating new maps of our literary consciousness. < Less

Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, is a startlingly moving look into the heart of the poet and the incomparable... More > beauty of the Chesapeake Bay. Author M. Kei, editor of the critically acclaimed 'Fire Pearls,' issues his first collection of poetry, focussing on the Chesapeake Bay area. Composed while crewing aboard one of the last skipjacks on the bay, and living and working on the Bay's shores, each poem is a loving portrait of life and loss at the Head of the Bay. < Less

Fire Pearls, Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart, features addresses all aspects of the human heart. Fifty poets run the... More > gamut of emotion from laughter to grief, anger, jealousy, joy, delight and more. All the poems are short five line stanzas: tanka, kyoka, cinquains, and free verse, yet the poets of Fire Pearls can pack an entire lifetime into a single intense poem. Arranged by season, including a ‘fifth season,’ Fire Pearls is sure to delight romantics and curmudgeons alike. < Less