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EDUCATIONAL OFFSITE LINKS

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu 100 Poems by 100 Poets - excellent historical tanka text.

Japan 2001 Waka Website the home page states this is "a site devoted to the many types of classical Japanese poetry. During the course of the Japan 2001 Festival we built up a collection of 2001 poems here, covering approximately the first thousand years of poetry in Japan. The poems appear in the original Japanese, transcribed into the Roman alphabet (Romanised) and translated into English. They are accompanied by commentary and background material to fill in the blanks on the world the Old Japanese poets lived in, their beliefs and society."

Modern English Tanka journal Modern English Tanka is dedicated to publishing and promoting fine English tanka (including tanka written in cinquain and cinqku set forms) and is interested in both traditional and innovative verse of high quality and in all serious attempts to assimilate the best of the Japanese waka/tanka genres into a continuously developing English short verse tradition. In addition to verse, Modern English Tanka publishes articles, essays, reviews, interviews, etc., related to tanka.

READ TANKA ONLINE HERE — Links to Offsite Webpages

Read some of the best in modern tanka from recent years. Click below for the results of the AHA Books' Tanka Splendor awards.

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2005     Also see the AHA Books Online page for fine tanka you can read online.

AHA! POETRY Tanka Page is Jane Reichhold's great tanka page; read both tanka and articles on tanka here.

Simply Tanka is Robert D. Wilson's personal tanka pages.

English Tanka Poems is Kozue Uzawa's webpage with tanka from a variety of poets.

Marianne Bluger - read the tanka of this late, great poet here.

Tanka: Poems in Exile by Jun Fujita, 1923 (excerpt from the tanka of the man who may be America's earliest tanka poet writing in English.) See also Fujita's tanka at Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse. See the biographical information at Jun Fujita (1888 - 1963).

Mariko Kitakubo is a tanka poet; many of her verse have been translated into English. The website is bi-lingual. Click on the Tanka & Essays link.

Tanka is Now - Norla Antinoro.

Wonder Haiku Worlds "is a Haiku site for All Haiku Lovers in All languages, residing anywhere in this world" which includes tanka.

Japanese poetry - a personal webpage with selected poems including tanka.

TankaNetz - a bi-lingual, German/English, website by tanka poet, Ingrid Kunschke of Germany.

Revue du Tanka Francophone - a French tanka website edited by Patrick Simon.

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