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ATLAS POETICA A Journal of World Tanka Number 23 M. Kei, editor toki, editorial assistant 2015 Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA KEIBOOKS P O Box 516 Perryville, Maryland, USA 21903 http://AtlasPoetica.org [email protected] Atlas Poetica A Journal of World Tanka Copyright © 2015 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, 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 We do not publish haiku, except as incidental to a tanka collage or other mixed form work.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 978-1515332763 (Print) AtlasPoetica.org TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial M. Kei ............................................5, 48, 49 Educational Use Notice............................... 4 Mac Miller ................................................50 Very Short Tanka Prose, M. Kei .......................5 Margaret Van Every .................................51 Marianne Paul ..........................................52 Poetry Marilyn Humbert ...............................52, 53 Alegria Imperial .........................................7 Marsha Oseas ...........................................53 Alexander Jankiewicz ................................7 Marshall Bood ..........................................54 Alexis Rotella ..............................................7 Martin Anderson ......................................54 Anna Cates .................................................8 Matsukaze ..........................................54, 57 Anne Benjamin ........................................65 Matthew Caretti .......................................58 Autumn Noelle Hall .............................9, 10 Maxianne Berger ......................................58 Barbara Strang .........................................10 Mike Montreuil ........................................59 Bob Lucky ....................................10, 11, 12 Miriam Sagan .....................................60, 61 Bruce England ....................................12, 13 Natsuko Wilson ........................................59 C. W. Carlson ...........................................13 Neal Whitman ..........................................61 Carole Johnston ........................................15 Patricia Prime .............62, 63, 64, 65, 95, 97 Charles D. Tarlton ..................15, 16, 17, 87 Peter Fiore ..........................................66, 67 Chen-ou Liu .......................................19, 20 Pravat Kumar Padhy ................................67 Cherie Hunter Day ...................................19 Rebecca Drouilhet ....................................68 Claire Everett ............................................20 Richard St. Clair ......................................68 David J. Kelly ............................................21 Roary Williams .........................................73 Debbie Strange .........................................21 Robyn Cairns ...........................................74 Don Miller ..........................................22, 23 Ruth Holzer ..............................................75 Eusebeia Philos .........................................23 S. M. Abeles........................................ 75, 76 Genie Nakano ....................................26, 27 Sandra Renew ....................................76, 77 Geoffrey Winch ........................................24 Sanford Goldstein ..............................77, 78 Gerry Jacobson .........................................25 Sonam Chhoki.............................. 78, 79, 80 Goran Gatalica .........................................25 Stephen Galiani ........................................81 Guy Simser ...............................................27 Stephen Toft .............................................81 Ignatius Fay ........................................28, 29 Stephanie Brennan .............................82, 84 Jade Pandora ............................................29 Tim Gardiner ...........................................85 Jean Pfeffer ...............................................29 Tish Davis ................................................85 Jenny Fraser ..............................................29 Traci Siler .................................................86 Jesus Chameleon ......................................30 Tracy Davidson ........................................86 Joan Boonin ..............................................30 Vasile Moldovan .......................................86 Joanna Ashwell .........................................30 Joanne Morcom ........................................31 Articles Jonathan Day ............................................31 Notes for a Theory of Tanka Prose: Ekphrasis and Joy McCall 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 57 Abstract Art, Charles D. Tarlton ...........87 Julie Bloss Kelsey ......................................39 Review: Moonbathing : a journal of women’s Kath Abela Wilson .............................39, 40 tanka, reviewed by Patricia Prime ........95 Larry Kimmel ....................................41, 42 Review: flowers to the torch, American Tanka Liam Wilkinson ........................................43 Prose, by Peter Fiore, reviewed by Patricia Lorne Henry .............................................44 Prime ..................................................97 Lynda Monahan .......................................46 Lynn Tara Austin .....................................46 Announcements .............................................100 Educational Use Notice Editorial Biographies Keibooks of Perryville, Maryland, USA, publisher of the journal, Atlas Poetica : A Journal of M. Kei is the editor of Atlas Poetica and World Tanka, is dedicated to tanka education in editor-in-chief of Take Five : Best Contemporary schools and colleges, at every level. It is our Tanka. He is a tall ship sailor in real life and has intention and our policy to facilitate the use of published nautical novels featuring a gay Atlas Poetica and related materials to the protagonist, Pirates of the Narrow Seas. His most maximum extent feasible by educators at every recent novel is an Asian-themed science fiction/ level of school and university studies. fantasy novel, Fire Dragon. Educators, without individually seeking permission from the publisher, may use Atlas Poetica : A Journal of World Tanka’s online digital toki is a published poet and editorial assistant editions and print editions as primary or ancillary for Keibooks. Born and raised in the Pacific teaching resources. Copyright law “Fair Use” Northwest US, toki often writes poetry informed guidelines and doctrine should be interpreted by the experience of that region: the labyrinthine very liberally with respect to Atlas Poetica precisely confines of the evergreen forests, the infinite on the basis of our explicitly stated intention vastness of the sea and inclement sky, and the herein. This statement may be cited as an liminal spaces in between. toki’s poetry can be effective permission to use Atlas Poetica as a text or found online and in print, with work published in resource for studies. Proper attribution of any Atlas Poetica, The Bamboo Hut, and Poetry Nook. excerpt to Atlas Poetica is required. This statement applies equally to digital resources and print copies of the journal. Individual copyrights of poets, authors, artists, etc., published in Atlas Poetica are their own property and are not meant to be compromised in any way by the journal’s liberal policy on “Fair Use.” Any educator seeking clarification of our policy for a particular use may email the Editor of Atlas Poetica at [email protected]. We welcome innovative uses of our resources for tanka education. Our ‘butterfly’ is actually an Atlas moth Atlas Poetica (Attacus atlas), the largest butterfly/moth in the Keibooks world. It comes from the tropical regions of Asia. P O Box 516 Image from the 1921 Les insectes agricoles d’époque. Perryville, MD 21903 <http://AtlasPoetica.org> Errata: In ATPO 22 we incorrectly listed the cover image as Floods in Bihar. It was actually Activity at Kizimen Volcano (Russia). We apologize for the error. This raises the question: if prose can be Very Short Tanka Prose poetry, does tanka prose require an element unequivocally formatted as a tanka? Or can This issue of Atlas Poetica focusses on tanka tanka prose exist without any overt