Essays

Essays

The following are selected essays and interviews on the art of tanka poetry.

• What Is Tanka?

• Sanford Goldstein’s Tanka World — Randy Brooks

• Sanford M. Goldstein Eulogy — Dave Goldstein

• Gifts of Tanka: An Essay on Structure — Ryland Shengzhi Li

• Beyond Five End-Stopped Lines — Ryland Shengzhi Li

• The Tanka Niche — Michael McClintock

• Spilling Tanka: An Interview with Sanford Goldstein — Patricia Prime

• The Seed of the Human Heart: Writing Tanka  — Michael Dylan Welch [off this site]

See also the Tanka Teachers Guide and the Links page.

Event Reports

• A Tanka Turning Point: The Tanka Society of America “Tanka Day” (2003 Tanka Monday) [off this site]

• Tanka Monday Report (2019 Tanka Monday) [off this site]