Essays

Essays

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

• What Is Tanka?

• The Tanka Niche

• Sanford M. Goldstein Eulogy

• Spilling Tanka: An Interview with Sanford Goldstein

• The Seed of the Human Heart: Writing Tanka [off this site]

• Gifts of Tanka: An Essay on Structure

• Beyond Five End-Stopped Lines

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)