Susan Burch
First Vice President
Hagerstown, Maryland
Susan Burch began writing tanka in April 2013 after reading winning contest poems on the Tanka Society of America website. She loved the brevity of the form and submitted to Ribbons, which published her first tanka and encouraged her to keep writing. She has placed in several tanka contests since then, and coordinates the TSA contest, along with two of the annual contests for Mandy’s Pages. Her ongoing goal is to promote the tanka form and to attract new readers and writers to tanka poetry.
Grand Canyon—
even in my darkest days
how you loved me
loved me
loved me
First Place, Fleeting Words Tanka Contest 2017
the space in me
or the space in bed?
the cold spot
where my husband
should be
Skylark 5:2, Winter 2017
in Lowe’s
contractor pickup area
a man asks me
if it hurt
when I fell from heaven
Atlas Poetica humorous tanka special feature, 2017