Theresa A. Cancro

Second Vice President

Wilmington, Delaware, USA

tsamentorship@gmail.com

Theresa A. Cancro, who lives in Wilmington, Delaware, writes haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, tanka prose, and linked verse, as well as free-verse poetry, flash fiction, and nonfiction articles. She has had her work published widely online and in print. Theresa started writing tanka in 2012, and her work has been included in American Tanka, Ribbons, Red Lights, Moonbathing, The Art of Tanka, Presence, and in many other journals and anthologies. She helped initiate and served as co-chair of TSA’s mentorship program in 2023 and 2024. As second vice president, she will continue the mentorship program as well as chair the TSA education committee and its activities.

a busker’s

tin whistle echoes

off the subway walls—

my footfalls merge

with each chipped tile

American Tanka #26, February 2016

I grab

that brass ring

on the carousel . . .

summer memories

spin out again

Presence #73, July 2022

a sliver moon

pierces velvet dusk . . .

the rawness

of our argument

scours my heart

The Art of Tanka 3, Fall/Winter 2024