ATLAS POETICA: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka is a journal of MET Press, a large format print and digital magazine providing an ongoing forum for the publication, appreciation, and advancement of tanka poetry of place. Poetry of place expands the self to include the community and environment, both human and natural, through which the poet travels. Groups and places have their biographies as well; they are not static non-entities but profoundly important, affecting and effective boundaries of the poet's psyche. Whether contemplating subjects as diverse as an old chest of drawers or a Canadian waterfall, poets find connection, meaning, and significance in the previously unremarked proximities of our lives. Tanka poets of place are pushing tanka as a genre and poetry as a form into new territories. Atlas Poetica is edited by M. Kei, poet, editor and anthologist.