MET 3 : The Spring 2007 issue of Modern English Tanka has been printed. MET 3 is available for purchase online at http://www.modernenglishtankapress.com/MET/ and also may be purchased by mail from the publisher - see the MET Subscriptions Page at http://www.modernenglishtankapress.com/MET/subscribe.html This issue includes 66 poets from around the world.

 

Call for Submissions : You are invited to submit tanka for the Summer 2007 issue (MET 4, Vol. 1, No.4) of Modern English Tanka. The submission deadline is June 15, 2007. Submissions will close earlier if the issue fills up; the first two issues closed early. MET is now accepting submissions.

 

Modern English Tanka is a quarterly journal—both a digital online magazine and a print literary journal—dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English tanka (including tanka written in cinquain and cinqku set forms). We are interested in both traditional and innovative verse of high quality and in all serious attempts to assimilate the best of the Japanese waka/tanka genres into a continuously developing English short verse tradition. In addition to verse, we publish articles, essays, book notes & reviews, interviews, letters to the editor, etc., related to tanka.

 

Please note: MET is not soliciting taiga nor any other graphics for this issue.

 

MET specializes in single tanka but tanka in sets and sequences will be considered as well. Collaborative tanka sequences are not wanted. While the five-line criterion is generally definitive for tanka, MET will consider variant forms on an individual basis (like everything else!) Serious poetry and adult themes are appreciated. Doggerel and anything that is pornographic or in any way nasty, hateful, bigoted, or partisan political, will not be accepted. All such judgments will be made at the sole discretion of the editor.

 

Modern English Tanka, Baltimore, Maryland USA. Website: http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/ Editor: Denis M. Garrison. Contributing Editor: Michael McClintock. Email up to 40 tanka, or email articles, reviews, essays, letters to the editor, etc., to the Editor at submissions@modernenglishtanka.com Before submitting, please read the detailed submission guidelines on the website at http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/submit.html. Modern English Tanka looks for top quality tanka in natural, modern English idiom. No payment for publication. Publishes a digital edition online and a print edition (6" x 9" trade paperback).

Thank you for sharing this call widely.

 

Sincerely,
Editors, Modern English Tanka
http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/
submissions@modernenglishtanka.com