[stylist] Tanka

Tue Aug 11 22:19:55 UTC 2015

Or, exhausted!
all aboard!
I did find a really great Tanka magazine today and on the "about" tab there 
is a very thorough explanation of  things we have been discussing here. It's 
interesting to hear what you all have had to say and I was surprised at the 
amount of interest in this topic.
The mag is called "American Tanka" if anyone wants to delve into it further. 
The latest issue has 20 tanks published and I loved the way each page has 
only one tanka so that a reader can be totally absorbed in the "moment" of 
the poem. When it is all said and done, the tanka is about just one moment 
in time. For more you can visit:   www.americantanka.com

Lynda

-----Original Message----- 
From: Myrna Badgerow via stylist
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 6:07 PM
To: Writers' Division Mailing List
Cc: Myrna Badgerow
Subject: Re: [stylist] Tanka

Tanka does not have to be about nature as haiku does but many still seem to 
be nature related or metaphorically so. Just an observance on my part
But as will all forms of oriental poetry the difference between 'English' 
translation of the rules and the Oriental version can be hugely contrasting.
It can leave you scratching your head.
Myrna

Sent from my iPhone

> On Aug 10, 2015, at 11:40 PM, Barbara HAMMEL via stylist 
> <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Webbl, for starters the lines follow a 5 7 5 7 7 pattern. They must be 
> written about nature and, I think, they must employ metaphors or similes 
> or personification. Am I right, tanka writers?
> Barbara
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Aug 10, 2015, at 22:56, EvaMarie Sanchez via stylist 
>> <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> So come on one of you... How do you write a Tanka? Are there any rules or
>> patterns to go by?
>> Sestinas  and cinquains are so simple, but I am at a loss with these 
>> Tanka
>> things. They all seem so different.
>> Eve
>>
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>> "You do not need to have vision to see the stars."
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>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Jackie Williams via stylist <
>> stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Lynda,
>>> Thank you. That is good to know. They do not mention any form but the 
>>> Haiku
>>> in the state contest brochures.
>>>
>>> Jackie Lee
>>>
>>> Time is the school in which we learn.
>>> Time is the fire in which we burn.
>>> Delmore Schwartz
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda
>>> Lambert
>>> via stylist
>>> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 2:47 PM
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>>> Cc: Lynda Lambert
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Tanka
>>>
>>> Breaking news: No titles and no numbering is permitted in tanka 
>>> circles -
>>> or
>>>
>>> in the publications of the tanks society literary magazines.  Lynda
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jackie Williams via stylist
>>> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 1:50 PM
>>> To: 'Writers' Division Mailing List'
>>> Cc: Jackie Williams
>>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Tanka
>>>
>>> Shawn,
>>> Do Tanka not have titles like Haiku?
>>> Your first line is a bit confusing to me, with the word Wonderout and it
>>> makes six syllables. I love the rest of it, and will think about it as I
>>> imagine looking into the heavens at the stars.
>>>
>>> Jackie Lee
>>>
>>> Time is the school in which we learn.
>>> Time is the fire in which we burn.
>>> Delmore Schwartz
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jacobson,
>>> Shawn D via stylist
>>> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 10:28 AM
>>> To: Writer's Division Mailing List (stylist at nfbnet.org)
>>> Cc: Jacobson, Shawn D
>>> Subject: [stylist] Tanka
>>>
>>> Here's one (since we're trading tankas.
>>>
>>> Wonderout father God
>>> who also is my mother
>>> I shall give you praise.
>>> You gorge the great burning stars,
>>> And give rest to little ones.
>>>
>>> Shawn
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