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Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose 1 - Summer 2009
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Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, with this inaugural issue, establishes itself as the first and only periodical devoted... More > 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. < Less
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Tanka Teachers Guide
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TANKA TEACHERS GUIDE contains primary materials and resources about tanka poetry which educators and students may copy... More > without seeking permission. Modern English Tanka Press is dedicated to tanka education and we welcome innovative uses of our print and online resources. We want to facilitate the use of our publications to the maximum extent feasible by educators at every level of school and university studies. Educators, without individually seeking permission from the publisher, may use our publications, online digital editions and print editions, as primary or ancillary teaching resources. < Less
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Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose 2 - Winter 2009
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Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose is established as the first and only periodical devoted exclusively to these two mixed... More > 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. < Less
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Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Vol. Three
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The Take Five editorial team for Volume 3 (2010), consisting of M. Kei, editor-in-chief (USA), Patricia Prime (NZ), Kala... More > Ramesh (India), Alex von Vaupel (NL), Aurora Antonovic (CAN), Magdalena Dale (Romania), Amelia Fielden (AUS/JP), Andrew Riutta (USA), and James Tipton (MEX), read all contemporary tanka published in English during 2010, including more than 175 venues totaling eighteen thousand poems. Sources ranged from tanka journals to social media to musical performances to chapbooks and many other formats. The result is Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume Three, featuring tanka, tanka prose, and tanka sequences by 187 poets and translators from around the world. With an introduction by editor-in-chief by M. Kei, and commentary by the editorial team, Take Five provides a valuable snapshot of tanka in the 21st century. Cover art by Aurora Antonovic. < Less
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Landfall
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Landfall: Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka is about the lands we live in, the highlands and the lowlands, prairies... More > and forests, deserts and wetlands, farmlands and wilderness, the vast continental interiors and the lands bordering the seas, and the waters of the earth. As such, it is inevitably a book about ourselves. Every generation makes anew its own landfall, discovering for itself its special, abiding relationship to the natural world. With these fine tanka, pastoral poems of a new kind for a new day, the greatly prized moment of making landfall becomes, also, an irrevocable moment of personal epiphany. Poets included are from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Thailand, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. < Less
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Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Vol. Three
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The Take Five editorial team for Volume 3 (2010), consisting of M. Kei, editor-in-chief (USA), Patricia Prime (NZ), Kala... More > Ramesh (India), Alex von Vaupel (NL), Aurora Antonovic (CAN), Magdalena Dale (Romania), Amelia Fielden (AUS/JP), Andrew Riutta (USA), and James Tipton (MEX), read all contemporary tanka published in English during 2010, including more than 175 venues totaling eighteen thousand poems. Sources ranged from tanka journals to social media to musical performances to chapbooks and many other formats. The result is Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume Three, featuring tanka, tanka prose, and tanka sequences by 187 poets and translators from around the world. With an introduction by editor-in-chief by M. Kei, and commentary by the editorial team, Take Five provides a valuable snapshot of tanka in the 21st century. Cover art by Aurora Antonovic. < Less
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First Winter Rain: Selected Tanka from 2006-2010
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“FIRST WINTER RAIN is a welcome new poetry collection from a master of the tanka form in English. ... Denis Garrison’s... More > poetic virtuosity ranges across passionate love lyrics, strongly resonant tanka of place, and elegiac mood pieces. There are lush poems of peace, despairing poems of war; poems of hopefulness, poems of resignation...”—Amelia Fielden, translator and poet, Australia.
“What I am struck by is the depth and openness of Garrison’s work, and a sincerity that raises his art high above the playing field of today’s tanka in English.”—Larry Kimmel, editor, Winfred Press.
“Wide-ranging in subject matter, restless and probing in their inquiry of the human heart, Denis Garrison’s tanka are somewhere near the fulcrum of all his efforts in poetry as editor, poet, and essayist. This generous, good man gifts us all with a lifetime of experience in the highs and lows of a well-traveled soul.”—Michael McClintock, President, Tanka Society of America. < Less
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Haiku Wisdom: Living the Principles and Philosophies of Kung Fu, Haiku and Nature
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Both born of ancient masters, the unique blending of Haiku and Kung Fu in Haiku Wisdom, gives us a seamless guide to... More > exploring our human existence. With careful attention to the minute detail and beauty of nature, Don Baird brings us on a magical journey of perception, introducing us to the miracles of our souls, hearts, minds and world. By using the allure of haiku mixed with the elegance of martial arts philosophies, he allows us to open our eyes to our own journeys, where we may begin to revel in the grandeur that is our life. < Less
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Dreams Wander On: Contemporary Poems of Death Awareness
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“Poets are our intrepid adventurers into the unknowable, thinkers on the unthinkable. Epstein’s collection brings us a... More > refreshing look at the brave task of examining the most common, in fact ultimate, human experience of dying, all too often shunned and studiously avoided in our Western society. Anytime we can pause to consider death, ..., we are brought more closely to fully living, to valuing each and every breath and moment as only the consideration of death allows.”
—Jana Baldridge Vargas, author of The Promise of Death, The Passion of Life: A Reflective Exploration of Death, Loss and Living Fully.
“In the face of death, human beings create art. Robert Epstein has collected pieces of that art together in one place for your consideration. Within this collection you will find your own awareness of death reflected in the voices of your fellow human beings, as we all seek to come to terms with impermanence.”
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I’m a Traveler: a collection of tanka
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“I am charmed by the light touch of Kozue Uzawa’s I’m a Traveler. I have always enjoyed her contributions to the... More > ‘Tanka Café’ and am happy to see some of those good friends included here. I have long admired her autumn poem about a ‘cold wind blowing / all day, and my face / becomes a winter face’ with its Lao Tzu-like transformation of one season into another, of outward and inward weather, effortlessly harmonized and soul-deep.”
—Michael McClintock, President, Tanka Society of America (2004–2010) < Less
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