Poet and Tanka

Who are the poets writing English-language tanka today? Where does the material for their poems come from?  What story can be told about how a particular poem was written? Did it come easily, or did it come with difficulty? What is involved in writing a good tanka?

Below are the first two installments  of the regular "Poet and Tanka" feature, taken from the TSA Newsletter, and continued in each issue of Ribbons: Tanka Society of America Journal. In each installment, a member of the Tanka Society of America is invited to tell us something about themselves and to offer a commentary on the creative process and background associated with one of their tanka.  --Michael McClintock

• Melissa Dixon
• David Rice
   

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