Bright Stars An Organic Tanka Anthology Volume 1 M. Kei, Editor Yancy Carpentier, Editorial Assistant Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA KEIBOOKS P O Box 516 Perryville, Maryland, USA 21903 AtlasPoetica.org [email protected] Bright Stars An Organic Tanka Anthology, Volume 1 Edited by M. Kei Bright Stars is a serial anthology published on no fixed schedule. During 2014 it will publish as many volumes as can be filled with tanka, waka, kyoka, gogyoshi, and related forms that embodies our editorial vision. For guidelines, see: http://atlaspoetica.org/?p=952. Copyright © 2014 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. Individual rights remain with the authors. See our EDUCATIONAL USE NOTICE. Cover Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech. ISBN: 978-1493752607 (Print) Table of Contents Editorial Joy McCall!.....................................45, 85 Educational Use Notice!..........................4 Julie Bloss Kelsey!.................................50 Welcome to Bright Stars, M. Kei!.............5 Kath Abela Wilson!.........................29, 51 Bright Stars Submission Guidelines!.......97 Kathy Uyen Nguyen!..............................55 Keitha Keyes!........................................56 Contributors Kristen Lindbeck!.................................57 Alan Summers!........................................7 Laurence Stacey!...................................58 Alexander Jankiewicz!..............................7 Liam Wilkinson!...................................59 Alexis Rotella!.........................................7 Luís Enrique Méndez Angulo!................60 Amelia Fielden!.....................................10 Lynne Leach!........................................60 André Surridge!.....................................75 M. Kei!.............................................5, 61 Angelo Ancheta!....................................11 Marianne Paul!......................................64 Autumn Noelle Hall!..............................12 Marie Lecrivain!....................................65 Belinda Broughton!................................12 Marilyn Morgan!...................................66 Bell Chevigny !......................................13 Matsukaze!...........................................67 Bob Lucky!...........................................14 Michael McClintock!.............................71 Brendan Slater!......................................15 Michael Seese!......................................71 Britton Gildersleeve!..............................16 Mike Montreuil!....................................72 Bruce D. Reed!......................................15 Nu Quang!...........................................72 Carol Raisfeld!......................................17 Nilufer Y. Mistry!..................................73 Carole Harrison!....................................17 Pat Geyer!............................................74 Carole Johnston!....................................18 Patricia Prime!......................................75 Chen-ou Liu!........................................19 Peter Fiore!..........................................76 Clive Oseman!.......................................20 Polona Oblak!.......................................77 Christina Nguyen!.................................21 Pravat Kumar Padhy!..............................77 Dave Read!............................................22 Ramesh Anand!.....................................78 David Rice!...........................................60 Richard St. Clair!..................................78 Dawn Bruce!.........................................25 Roary Williams!.....................................79 Debbie Strange!.....................................25 Ruth Y. Nott!........................................80 Devin Walter Harrison!..........................29 S. M. Abeles!........................................80 Eamonn O’Neill!...................................30 Sandy Pray!...........................................81 Elle M!..................................................31 Sanford Goldstein!................................82 Ernesto P. Santiago!..............................32 Sergio Ortiz!........................................85 Eve Castle!............................................32 Sondra J. Byrnes!...................................88 Frank Watson!......................................33 Stephanie Brennan!...............................88 Gary Blankenship!.................................34 Susan Constable!..................................90 gennepher!............................................35 Terri Simon!.........................................91 Gerry Jacobson!...............................38, 49 Toki!....................................................91 Grunge!................................................39 Tracy Davidson!....................................94 Hank Archer!........................................41 Tzod Earf!............................................95 Jade Pandora!........................................41 William Hart!........................................96 Jeffrey Harpeng!....................................43 Johannes S. H. Bjerg!.............................44 Bright Stars • Volume 1 • Page 3 Educational Use Notice Keibooks of Perryville, Maryland, USA, publisher of Bright Stars : An Organic Tanka Anthology, is dedicated to tanka education in schools and colleges, at every level. It is our intention and our policy to facilitate the use of Bright Stars and related materials to the maximum extent feasible by educators at every level of school and university studies. Educators, without individually seeking permission from the publisher, may use Bright Stars : An Organic Tanka Anthology’s online, digital, and print editions as primary or ancillary teaching resources. Copyright law “Fair Use” guidelines and doctrine should be interpreted very liberally with respect to Bright Stars precisely on the basis of our explicitly stated intention herein. This statement may be cited as an effective permission to use Bright Stars as a text or resource for studies. Proper attribution of any excerpt to Bright Stars is required. This statement applies equally to digital resources and print copies of the anthology. Individual copyrights of poets, authors, artists, etc., published in Bright Stars 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 Publisher of Bright Stars at [email protected]. We welcome innovative uses of our resources for tanka education. Bright Stars Keibooks P O Box 516 Perryville, MD 21903 <http://AtlasPoetica.org> Bright Stars • Volume 1 • Page 4 Welcome to Bright Stars, An simple to reduce the hours spent in preparation and to facilitate conversion to ebook. This allows Organic Tanka Anthology an inexpensive cover price in the hope that increased sales will offset production costs. Bright Stars focuses on the Japanese aesthetic It’s also a gamble. Poetry books in general, of ‘akarui’—bright, light, illuminated, brilliant, including tanka books, don’t sell very well. For shiny, brassy, active, energetic, noisy, loud, that reason, small presses have to set their prices happy, drunk, passionate, wild, playful, vivid, and high enough to cover expenses with only a small boundless. That doesn’t mean there is no volume of sales. Financially, Bright Stars is a risk, darkness—black is a color too, but our dark but after careful calculations, Keibooks is poems are actively dark, not a sighing shade of committed to the project for one year. Bright grey. Stars will publish as many volumes of bright new Bright Stars is devoted to five line poetry— work as is submitted by the September 30, 2014, tanka, waka, kyoka, gogyoshi, shaped tanka, deadline. We hope readers will gift copies of tanka sequence, tanka prose, collaborative tanka Bright Stars to schools and libraries to reach the —any form based on the short, lyrical, five part greatest range of readers. Our Educational Use poem originally from Japan. We welcome Notice gives permission for Bright Stars to be experimentation and variation—there are other used in educational projects at any level. venues that publish traditional tanka, but Bright We encourage anyone to submit to Bright Stars dreams of the future, not the past. Stars with any sort of subject matter or approach. In pursuit of that goal, we have a special We like new, previously unpublished poems, but emphasis on new and emerging poets. Two-thirds we will also accept socially published tanka, and, of the poets contained herein have rarely or never with certain restrictions, reprints of other been published in a tanka venue before. Many of electronically published work. (See our them publish on Twitter, a remarkably ephemeral guidelines at the back of the book.) Also be sure means of publication for these brief poems. Many and visit AtlasPoetica.org for more information of the poets learned about tanka by following the about tanka, free Special Features online, and #tanka hashtag on Twitter and have been moved tanka resources. to try their own tanka. Some are experienced Articles, book reviews, book notes, and poets who are new to tanka, but some have