About Us
The mission of Modern English Tanka Press is to promote the tanka form of poetry, to educate newcomers to tanka about the form's history and
future, techniques and uses, and to work for wider publication of tanka in both specialty and mainstream poetry venues.
In order to accomplish this mission, Modern English Tanka Press publishes the quarterly journal of western tanka,
Modern English Tanka, and special edition books of tanka and related subjects.
Furthermore, TankaCentral.com is the internet megasite for tanka.
Denis M. Garrison, a longtime online literary magazine editor and publisher and a member of the
Tanka Society of America,
Tanka Canada, and
Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society, operates TankaCentral.com in order to
promote the tanka form and wider publication of tanka in both specialty and mainstream poetry venues.
Denis M. Garrison, publisher of
Modern English Tanka,
Atlas Poetica, and
Modern Haiga,
lives near Maryland's Chesapeake Bay
with his wife, Deborah. In the 1970s, he edited Towson University’s literary magazine and taught creative
writing for Johns Hopkins University’s Free University. His poetry's published in Poetry Scotland, Ribbons, Tangled Hair, red lights, Nightingale,
Simply Haiku, Moonset, Wisteria, Roadrunner, Verse Libre Quarterly, Stirring, World Haiku Review, Haiga Online, and many others,
in his books,
Hidden River (haiku), Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir, and Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems, a volume of formal poetry and
free verse. His poetry is anthologized in
May Dazed, Poets Gone Wild anthology,
The Five-Hole Flute, Fire Pearls, and others.
He's edited the webzines,
Haiku Harvest, Ku Nouveau, Haiku Noir, Templar Phoenix,
Haiku Cycles, Gunpowder River Poetry, Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, and Loch Raven Review.
See Garrison's
MET Press bookstore.
Copyright © 2006-2008 by Modern English Tanka Press.
