Links

Tanka Links

You’ll find many tanka resources online, in addition to our Ribbons and Laurels journals. Here’s a selection of them.

Organizations

• Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society (England; apparently inactive and the link no longer works; see also this link and this link)

• International Tanka Society / Nihon Kajin Club (publishes International Tanka, formerly Tanka Journal) (Japan)

• Tanka Canada (publishes Gusts) (Canada) [temporarily not working; for info, email Kozue Uzawa]

Journals

• American Tanka [no longer working; see January 2021 WayBack Machine archive]

• The Art of Tanka [for info, email Pamela Babusci]

• Atlas Poetica [no longer working; see December 2022 WayBack Machine archive]

• Eucalypt (Australia)

• Gusts (Tanka Canada) [temporarily not working; for info, email Kozue Uzawa]

• International Tanka (Japan Tanka Poets’ Society / Nihon Kajin Club)

• Moonbathing (women only; discontinued)

• Red Lights (stale Facebook page; has no website)

• Skylark (England; discontinued, but old issues are available on Amazon)

• Take 5ive

• Tanka Journal (replaced by International Tanka, Japan Tanka Poets’ Society)

• Tanka Journal (Prolific Press; discontinued)

Journals that Welcome Tanka

• The Bamboo Hut

• Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society members only)

• Cattails

• Haiku Canada Review

• Hedgerow

• Hummingbird

• Kokako (ceasing after the April 2024 issue)

• Mariposa (Haiku Poets of Northern California members only)

• Presence

• Prune Juice

• Rattle

• Right Hand Pointing

• Sonic Boom

• Tinywords

Other Links

• All Things Tanka

• Cirrus (French-language tanka journal, 2014–2019)

• Graceguts tanka page

• Inkstone Poetry Forum

• Kozue Uzawa’s Tanka Pages [temporarily not working]

• Mandy’s Pages Annual Tanka Contest

• Modern English Tanka (defunct; link goes to January 2020 WayBack Machine archive)

• Selected Tanka Bibliography

• Tanka (Academy of American Poets)

• Tanka (on Wikipedia)

• Tanka Francophone (and its journal, Revue du Tanka Francophone)

• Tanka in English (on Wikipedia)

• Tanka Online (defunct; link goes to December 2021 WayBack Machine archive)

• Tanka Poets on Site (on Facebook)

• Tanka Take Home (Triveni Haikai India )

• What Is a Waka? (by Amy Vladeck Heinrich)

• Wind Five-Folded School of Tanka (Aha Poetry)

• Waka Bungakukai 和歌文学会 (Japanese)

• Waka Literary Society blog (Japanese)

• British Haiku Society

• Haiku Canada

• Haiku Society of America

Before the Tanka Society of America website moved in 2013 to the current .org domain used for this site, it previously had a .com domain name. You can view an archived version of the old website on the WayBack Machine. In the late fall of 2021, the site was migrated from Google Sites to New Google Sites and overhauled with a new design, structural and security changes, and optimization for computers, tablets, and phones. Below is how the site appeared in December  of 2021, before the new design was launched.