Rusty Tea Kettle: A Tanka Journal

Rusty Tea Kettle is a quarterly online journal that is seeking the absolute best in English tanka. Each issue will feature no more than ten poets. Each of these poets will have no more than five of his or her poems showcased. The focus of Rusty Tea Kettle will be quality over quantity. Issues will come out in January, April, July and October. Rusty Tea Kettle cannot pay its contributors. Rusty Tea Kettle and its editors hope to publish an anthology of its finest poems in 2010.

Rusty Tea Kettle, a brand new online tanka journal, is now accepting submissions for its first issue, which will be released in January. Please send no more than ten of your best poems to rustyteakettle@yahoo.com. Rusty Tea Kettle does not accept postal submissions, nor is it able to pay its contributors.

Note: Rusty Tea Kettle places most of its emphasis on subject matter, so form will not be held to any strict historical or contemporary guidelines. However, Rusty Tea Kettle's standards are extremely high, so please don't become discouraged. Just keep in mind that, in this day and age, boarded-up windows are perhaps a more relevant topic than cherry blossoms. Of course, the best poems are those that manage both.

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