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Atlas Poetica Journal of World Tanka Poetry 29 ATLAS POETICA A Journal of World Tanka Number 29 M. Kei, editor toki, editorial assistant 2017 Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA KEIBOOKS P O Box 516 Perryville, Maryland, USA 21903 AtlasPoetica.org Atlas Poetica A Journal of World Tanka Copyright © 2017 by Keibooks All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by reviewers and scholars who may quote brief passages. See our EDUCATIONAL USE NOTICE. Atlas Poetica : A Journal of World Tanka, an organic print and e-journal published at least three times a year. Atlas Poetica is dedicated to publishing and promoting world tanka literature, including tanka, kyoka, gogyoshi, tanka prose, tanka sequences, shaped tanka, sedoka, mondo, cherita, zuihitsu, ryuka, and other variations and innovations in the field of tanka. We do not publish haiku, except as incidental to a tanka collage or other mixed form work. Atlas Poetica is interested in all verse of high quality, but our preference is for tanka literature that is authentic to the environment and experience of the poet. While we will consider tanka in the classical Japanese style, our preference is for fresh, forward-looking tanka that engages with the world as it is. We are willing to consider experiments and explorations as well as traditional approaches. In addition to verse, Atlas Poetica publishes articles, essays, reviews, interviews, letters to the editor, etc., related to tanka literature. Tanka in translation from around the world are welcome in the journal. Published by Keibooks ISBN-13: 978-1548863692 ISBN-10: 1548863696 Also available for Kindle AtlasPoetica.org TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Murasame..................................................... 55 Educational Use Notice ................................92 Michael H. Lester ...................................55, 57 Introducing the Englyn, M. Kei ............................5 Matsukaze..................................................... 55 N. E. Taylor ...................................................58 Poetry Patricia Prime ...................................59, 60, 61 ai li.... ................................................ 7, 8, 9, 10 Paul Mercken ...............................................62 Aju Mukhopadhyay ......................................12 Pat Geyer ......................................................63 Alegria Imperial ...........................................12 Paweł Markiewicz .........................................64 Anita Virgil ...................................................13 Peter Fiore ....................................................64 Barbara Curnow ...........................................33 Richard St. Clair ..........................................64 Bill Albert ..........................................14, 15, 16 Robert Henry Poulin ....................................65 Carole Johnson .............................................15 Samantha Sirimanne Hyde ....................51, 66 Catherine McGrath ......................................33 Sanford Goldstein......................................... 66 Charles D. Tarlton ........................................16 Steve Black ...................................................67 Chen-ou Liu ...........................................27, 28 Tamara K. Walker ........................................69 Chris Cole..................................................... 29 Tanja Trček ..................................................70 Debbie Strange .......................................29, 30 Tim Lenton ..................................................71 Don Miller ....................................................30 Vladimir Laptenok .................................71, 72 Don Wentworth ......................................31, 42 Enid Howell ..................................................32 Articles Frances Black ................................................50 The Garden of Blooming Flowers: My Experience of Gerry Jacobson .......................................33, 34 Tanka Writing, Pravat Kumar Padhy............ 72 Giselle Maya .................................................61 Englyn : A Welsh Alternative to Tanka, Richard St. James Tipton ................................................34 Clair............................................................ 78 Janet Lynn Davis ..........................................35 Review: The Way of Tanka by Naomi Beth Joanna Ashwell .............................................42 Wakan, reviewed by Michael Dylan Welch 78 Joy McCall ...16, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, Review: fieldgates, tanka sequences, by Joy McCall, 42, 47, 71, 72 reviewed by Maxianne Berger.................... 84 Julie Bloss Kelsey ..........................................43 Review: For Instance, Sweetheart: Forty Years of Love Kate Brown ..................................................51 Songs (1970-2010), reviewed by Patricia Kazuaki Wakui .......................................43, 44 Prime ..........................................................86 Keitha Keyes..................................... 44, 45, 46 Lavana Kray .................................................46 Leonard Green .............................................46 Liam Wilkinson............................................. 47 Lorne Henry .................................................47 Louisa Howerow ...........................................48 Lynda Monahan ...........................................48 M. Kei ..........................................................49 Margaret Van Every .....................................50 Marilyn Humbert ...................................50, 51 Mariko Kitakubo ..........................................54 Marshall Bood ..............................................54 Maryalicia Post .............................................55 Atlas Poetica • Issue 29 • Page 3 idea and guide your project to completion. Introducing the Englyn Review previously existing special features on our website, then send us a short email inquiry. Our Englyn is a Welsh four-line poetic form that first ever special feature, ‘25 Romanian Tanka our poets have noticed resembles the Okinawan Poets in Romanian and English’ has been our ryuka, itself an offshoot of the Japanese tanka. most frequently read special feature even eight The englyn is a unique form with no connection years after it was first published. By contrast, to the Japanese, so we will not be adding it to the ‘The Garage, Not the Garden,’ had the largest list of forms regularly publish, but we do believe number of submissions. We are always interested that it will be of interest to our readers. Richard in special features that explore different national St Clair provides an introduction to the Welsh traditions of tanka, ryuka, sedoka, and cherita, as englyn, along with examples of his own work. well as different topics and approaches. At the Readers and poets interested in seeing more are time this is published, our most recent special advised to seek out the journal Englyn edited by features on humor and arthropods (insects and Liam Wilkinson. arachnids) have recently been published, or will In this issue we continue to see a keen be shortly. Special features are published on an interest in the cherita sparked by our online irregular basis as we receive proposals and can fit special feature edited by ai li, and the vast the work in around our regular schedule. amount of cherita published in volume 27 of Elsewhere in this issue you will find our usual Atlas Poetica. The cherita, like the cinquain, assortment of tanka, ryuka, cherita, tanka prose, originally an East-West hybrid, appears to have and tanka sequences. Our first Russian tanka naturalized itself to the English language and is appear in this issue, as well as items in French, here to stay. A new journal devoted to cherita, Dutch, and Malay. (Please remember that called simply cherita, edited by ai li and Larry translators should always be credited and receive Kimmel, has published its second issue as an a byline.) online flipbook. As always, our poets are endlessly inventive. We have also published a variety of non- Joy McCall finds tanka poetry in the King James fiction articles in this issue, including book Bible, while Gerry Jacobson, Barbara Curnow, reviews, the aforementioned article on englyn, and Catherine McGrath have given us a and a personal retrospective of tanka writing by collaborative cherita. The team of Marilyn Pravat Kumar Padhy. ATPO publishes all sorts of Humbert, Samantha Sirimanne Hyde, and Kate articles written from various perspectives of Brown share collaborative tanka prose. Peter different lengths and complexity levels. Fiore shares another of his prose tanka poems We encourage anyone to share their thoughts (which is not the same as a tanka prose) while Bill about tanka and related poetry in a non-fiction Albert critiques the Jerry Lewis telethons. As I article. All articles must have citations, but if have always said, “Everything is tanka.” you’re inexperienced, we can guide you through proper organization and formatting. Articles ~K~ 500 – 5000 words in length can be sent over the transom, but inquire first regarding articles M. Kei outside that length. We’re a large format journal, Editor, Atlas Poetica so we love to publish in-depth articles that are carefully researched, but we also publish short Crepuscular Rays. opinion pieces as
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