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Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tanka contest, and our membership anthologies. If you’re not already a member, please read the Top-Five Benefits of TSA Membership and JOIN OR RENEW TODAY.
Tanka poetry has a history of more than 1,300 years in Japan and 100 years in English. Originally written in the Japanese Imperial court, when it was known as waka, tanka has grown to be a worldwide genre of poetry written in English on a variety of topics, usually in five lines. Join fellow members of the Tanka Society of America, founded in 2000, in discovering, sharing, studying, preserving, and appreciating this vibrant genre of English-language poetry.
TSA 20th Anniversary Taiga ShowcaseTo help celebrate the Tanka Society of America’s twentieth anniversary in 2020, Susan Burch solicited and compiled “taiga” (haiga featuring tanka) to display on the society’s Facebook page ...
Posted by Michael Dylan Welch
2020 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest ResultsCongratulations to the winners of the 2020 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest, judged by Margaret Dornaus and Claire Everett. Results and commentary are now live, with the top three poems ...
Posted Aug 11, 2020, 12:34 AM by Michael Dylan Welch
2020 TSA Membership AnthologyMembers, we need your tanka! The Tanka Society of America is pleased to announce that its 20th anniversary members’ anthology will be edited by TSA founder and president, Michael Dylan ...
Posted Jul 5, 2020, 1:19 PM by Michael Dylan Welch
Announcing the 2020 Goldstein Tanka ContestThe Tanka Society of America is pleased to announce the 2020
Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest. In honor of the society’s 20th
anniversary, the contest is FREE to enter ...
Posted Mar 28, 2020, 12:01 AM by Michael Dylan Welch
Tanka Haiga InvitationIn celebration of the Tanka Society of America’s 20th anniversary and in honor of National Poetry Month, we have decided to run a special “Tanka Haiga” feature across the ...
Posted Jul 5, 2020, 1:51 PM by Michael Dylan Welch
Happy New Year, Tanka Society of America!明けましておめでとう。 To kick off the new year, which is also the Tanka Society of America’s 20th anniversary year, the society is pleased to share a short new video featuring ...
Posted Jan 1, 2020, 12:08 AM by Michael Dylan Welch
TSA Election ResultsThe
Tanka Society of America is pleased to report that the following people have
been elected or reelected as officers for the 2020–2021 term:
President: Michael Dylan Welch
Vice ...
Posted Nov 24, 2019, 5:02 PM by Michael Dylan Welch
New Ribbons EditorThe Tanka Society of America thanks David Rice for his eight years of service as editor of the society's journal, Ribbons. He has announced that he now wishes to ...
Posted Sep 12, 2019, 10:05 AM by Michael Dylan Welch
2019 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest ResultsCongratulations to the winners of the 2019 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest, judged by Michelle Brock and Hazel Hall. We were delighted to announce the winners at Tanka Sunday on ...
Posted Aug 23, 2019, 1:00 PM by Michael Dylan Welch
Tanka Monday Final ScheduleTanka Monday is just one week away. Check out the final schedule, featuring a pleasing variety of readings, presentations, writing exercises, an anonymous workshop, group discussion, and more. Hope to ...
Posted Aug 4, 2019, 1:28 AM by Michael Dylan Welch
