ABOUT US

MET PRESS, also dba MODERN ENGLISH TANKA PRESS, is an independent publishing house in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to developing and producing works of lasting literary value. We are a family business and we treat our customers and partners in publishing like family. See our Publish webpage if you are interested in working with us.

The mission of MET 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.

Denis M. Garrison 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 is published in Poetry Scotland, Ribbons, Tangled Hair, Eucalypt, Magnapoets, red lights, Nightingale, Trilopia, Simply Haiku, Moonset, Wisteria, Roadrunner, Verse Libre Quarterly, Stirring, World Haiku Review, Haiga Online, and many others, and in his books, Eight Shades of Blue (haiku), Hidden River (haiku), Fire Blossoms: The Birth of Haiku Noir, Sailor in the Rain and Other Poems, a volume of formal and free verse, and First Winter Rain: Selected Tanka from 2006-2010. His poetry is anthologized in May Dazed, Poets Gone Wild, The Five-Hole Flute, Fire Pearls. The Dreaming Room, Sixty Sunflowers,, Landfall, and Ash Moon Anthology. He's edited Modern English Tanka, Concise Delight, Modern Haiga, Ambrosia: Journal of Fine Haiku, Haiku Harvest, Ku Nouveau, Haiku Noir, Templar Phoenix, Haiku Cycles, Gunpowder River Poetry, Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, and Loch Raven Review.