Organizations and Journals
Tanka journals were published in the United States in Japanese starting in the 1920s. Bilingual English-Japanese journals were published in the 1950s. Only recently have there been journals devoted exclusively to tanka in English, including American Tanka (1996) in the United States and Tangled Hair in Britain, edited by John Barlow. The first English-language tanka journal Five Lines Down, began in 1994, but lasted only a few issues. Atlas Poetica, a journal of contemporary tanka, has been published since 2007.
The Tanka Chapter of the Chaparral Poets of California was operating in the early 60s, as mentioned in the Introduction to Sounds from the Unknown (1963), but it is not known whether they published a journal. They published an anthology in 1975, entitled simply, Tanka. The Tanka Chapter is no longer extant. The Tanka Society of America was founded by Michael Dylan Welch in April 2000 in Decatur, Illinois. This society now publishes the tanka journal Ribbons. Tanka Canada also publishes a journal titled Gusts, and the Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society (UK) hosts a web site with tanka and articles.
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