Favourite tanka journals

[Stewart Baker]

What are your favourites?  My tanka reading and submitting list is awfully slim. :)

[S.M. Abeles]

Hi Stewart:

There are probably more than you think.  Mixed genre journals that accept tanka include A Hundred Gourds, Presence, Cattails, and Moongarlic.  And there are tanka (and related)-only journals like Atlas Poetica, Skylark, Red Lights, and Ribbons.  I recommend each of these for both reading and writing pleasure.  Good luck.

Scott

[Stewart Baker]

Thanks, Scott. :)

Edit: Does Red Lights still exist?  MET Press seems to have gone out of business in December.

[AlanSummers]

I knew the books were being discontinued.

Here's the Red Lights webpage:
http://www.themetpress.com/bookstore/redlights.html

I've just emailed Marilyn Hazelton, and hopefully we can receive confirmation for this year.

warm regards,

Alan

Thanks, Scott. :)

Edit: Does Red Lights still exist?  MET Press seems to have gone out of business in December.

[AlanSummers]

Red Lights is still alive and going strong, please support the next issue!

From Marilyn:

Dear Alan,

Thank you for checking.  red lights is very much alive.  The January issue is at the printers now and will be mailed out around January 15th.  The poster may not have been able to find it listed on Denis Garrison's Tanka Central website.  He kindly moved information on red lights to the site below which you also have with my address at the bottom of your email.

http://www.themetpress.com/bookstore/redlights.html

And, thank you very much for recommending red lights to your tanka students.  Your faith in the journal is greatly appreciated.

My very best,
Marilyn