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    the long wash
    of summer rain
    reveals
    my archeology--
    I am smiling stone

    Jeanne Emrich
 

    my parents and in-laws
    moving toward senility
    suddenly
    there's no one
    I need to impress

    Margaret Chula


    so many things
    to have opinions on
    yet as I drive along
    I don't arrive
    at any of them

    Tom Clausen

    


























































 

 

         
           Welcome!  Learn here about the lyric poem of Japan
           known as tanka (waka), now becoming one of the
           most popular and versatile short forms of poetry in
           English. 

           Between Us: An Interview
                     with Guest Poet Beverley George 


           What Is Tanka?

             
About Tanka and Its History
                 by Amelia Fielden
             
From the Man'yōshū to Contemporary Tanka
                 by Mariko Kitakubo

        
          Learn to Write Tanka

            
A Quick Start Guide to Writing Tanka
                 by Jeanne Emrich
            
Notes on Form, Techniques, and Subject Matter
                 by Michael McClintock
            
A Tanka Repair Kit
                 by Jeanne Emrich
            
My Tanka Path
                 by Tom Clausen
            
Distilling Experience
                 by Margaret Chula
            
Tanka as Diary
                 by Amelia Fielden

         
Learn by Example

          Tanka Diary Style
          Travel Tanka
          Tanka as Personal Reflection
          Writing in a Persona
          Tanka of Allusion
          Tanka as Song
          Tanka as Elegy or Banka
          Tanka Inspired by a Poem
              
        
Visit Our Tanka Gallery - Featuring Beverley George

         The Tanka Online Bookstore

         Interviews with Tanka Online Guest Poets
             
              Drops from Her Umbrella ― Laura Maffei

              Between Us ― Beverley George

         A Few Good Books on Tanka Literature

         The Tanka Online Archives

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