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.
We are open to inquiries regarding publication of quality manuscripts on a wide range of subjects. Our publications
are produced using modern print-on-demand production and distribution
methods. We are open to other projects.
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.
The MET Press is proud to be a member of the MidAtlantic Book Publishers Association.
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Denis M. Garrison, a literary magazine editor and publisher since the early 1970s, and a member of the
Tanka Society of America,
Haiku Society of America,
Tanka Canada,
and Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society, owns and operates Modern English Tanka Press, MET Press, Tanka Central, and
Tanka News. See
Denis M. Garrison Online.
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.
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