Atlas Poetica 34 : A Journal of World Tanka Published by Keibooks
Atlas Poetica
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15 September 2018
Atlas Poetica 34 : A Journal of World Tanka
List Price: $13.95
8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Black & White on White paper
94 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1723568435
ISBN-10: 1723568430
BISAC: Poetry / General
Tanka is catharsis, testimony, witness, exaltation, redemption, and most importantly, hope. Humans have never yet been cured of the madness that compels us, like Saturn devouring his son, to devour those who are weaker than ourselves. But carried in our same defective genes is the desire to be better. Whether it is Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa or Ernesto Cortázar’s Beethoven’s Silence, or Michelangelo’s David, art is how we express our humanity. It is why cello players take their instruments to bomb craters and war zones, sit in the middle of danger and devastation, and play.
Expression of the human heart has been built into tanka from the beginning. That is why this issue is dedicated to bearing witness to the inhumanity of our time. Within these pages you will find tanka that illuminate and ultimately redeem our broken world.
Sample Poems
Charles Harmon
Ronaldo
always my fastest runner
trying to outrun
his Guatemalan past
Mayan genocide
Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah
in a strange letter your hair is too bright for bullets and my mornings
Joanna Ashwell
choosing to travel
with a substitute
on my left finger
covered by a decoy
to fool predators away
M. Kei
my heart,
striking midnight,
began to toll,
each peal of pain
an echo of darkness
Tracy Davidson
my grandmother
muses on how Hitler
would have tweeted . . .
much the same she thinks
but with better spelling
Contributors:
A. A. Marcoff, Adelaide B. Shaw, ai li, Aju Mukhopadhyay, Akane, Alexander Jankiewicz, Alexis Rotella, Alistair M. C. Isaac, Anne Benjamin, Autumn Noelle Hall, Barbara Curnow, Benjamin Taylor, Bette Midler, Billy Simms, Britton Gildersleeve, Bruce England, Carol Raisfeld, Charles Harmon, Chen-ou Liu, Crys Smith, Dave Read, Dean A. Brink, Debbie Strange, Dianne Fuela, Elizabeth Howard, Elizabeth Moura, Erin Kubota, Frances Black, Genie Nakano, Gerry Jacobson, Giselle Maya, Jackie Chou, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Jan Foster, Jenny Ward Angyal, Jim Doss, Joanna Ashwell, Jon Baldwin, Jonathan Day, Joy McCall, Kath Abela Wilson, Keitha Keyes, Leonard Green, Lorne Henry, M. Kei, Marianne Paul, Marietta McGregor, Marilyn Humbert, Mark Jun Poulos, Martin McKellar, Maryalicia Post, Matthew Caretti, Matsukaze, Michael D. Mann, Michael H. Lester, Mike Montreuil, Murasame, Pat Geyer, Patricia Pella, Patricia Prime, Paul Mercken, Peter Fiore, Pravat Kumar Padhy, Pris Campbell, Randy Brooks, Richard Grahn, Richard St. Clair, Ruth Holzer, Samantha Sirimanne Hyde, Sandra Renew, Sanford Goldstein, Scott Pickett, Shernaz Wadia, Tanja Trcek, Tish Davis, Tracy Davidson, Vijay Joshi
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Submit to Atlas Poetica : A Journal of World Tanka. Guidelines are available at the website: <http://AtlasPoetica.org>
Back issues of Atlas Poetica are available to read for free online at: <http://AtlasPoetica.org>. Visitors to the site will also want to check out the Resources section for more information about tanka, kyoka, gogyoshi, sedoka, cherita, tanka prose, tanka sequences, and more.
Submissions are read year-round for Atlas Poetica. Complete guidelines are on the website.
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