ÿþ<html><head><title>Atlas Poetica 4 - Autumn 2009</title> <LINK REV="made" href="mailto:webmaster@themetpress.com"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="tanka, waka, tanka sequences, poetry, poetry of place, Japanese poetry"> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Atlas Poetica is journal of poetry of place in modern English tanka."> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL"> </head> <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" alink="#4169E1" vlink="#800080" link="#000080"> <a name="top"> <!-- v BEGIN HEADER TABLE --> <table bgcolor="#000000" width="800" border="0" cellpadding="20"> <tr><td width="40%" align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#000000"> <img src="http://www.themetpress.com/atlaspoetica/images/earthlogo250.jpg" border="0" alt="Atlas Poetica logo" align="left" height="188" width="250"><BR><BR><BR><BR> </td><td width="60%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Times Roman" color="#FFFFFF" size="4"> Atlas Poetica <small> &#8211; A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka</small></FONT><p> <img src="http://www.themetpress.com/atlaspoetica/images/barredblack12gif.gif" height="2" width="655"> <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Times Roman" color="#FFFFFF" size="2"> ISSN 1939-6465 [Print]. ISSN 1945-8908 [Digital].<BR> Atlas Poetica is published by Modern English Tanka Press.</FONT> </td></tr></table> <!-- ^ END HEADER TABLE --> <!-- v BEGIN MAIN TABLE --> <img src="http://www.themetpress.com/atlaspoetica/images/spacerblack50.jpg" border="0" alt="spacer" align="left"> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="800" border="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr><td width="100%" align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <!-- v BEGIN INNER TABLE 1 --> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="800" border="0" cellpadding="20" valign="top"> <tr><td width="100%" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Times Roman" color="#000000" size="2"> | <A HREF="http://www.themetpress.com/atlaspoetica/digital/atlaspoetica4.pdf"><B>Online edition of Atlas Poetica 4</B></a> | <A HREF="http://www.scribd.com/doc/28082767/ATPO4withcover-Scribd" target="_blank"><B>Atlas Poetica 4 at Scribd.com</B></a> | <A HREF="http://www.themetpress.com/atlaspoetica/masthead.html"><B>Masthead</B></a> | </font> </td></tr></table> <!-- ^ END INNER TABLE 1 --> <!-- v BEGIN INNER TABLE 2 --> <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="800" height="300" border="0" cellpadding="10" valign="top"> <tr><td width="100%" align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <img src="http://www.themetpress.com/atlaspoetica/images/blackline.gif" height="2" width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Times Roman" color="#000000" size="2"><BR> <P> <img src="http://www.themetpress.com/atlaspoetica/images/frontcoversmall4.jpg" border="5" alt="Atlas Poetica front cover" align="left"> <P> <B><h3>ATLAS POETICA 4 &#8211; AUTUMN 2009</h3></B> <P> <B><h4>Twitterati, or Microblogging Tanka Poets</h4></B> <P>  People are tweeting tanka (and haiku and micropoetry) in great numbers on Twitter. ... a surprising amount is good. Further, because each poet has  followers who often  retweet items they like, a good poem will be seen far beyond the poet s personal circle. As a result, each tanka poet has a readership larger than many tanka journals. The thing that strikes me most about these poets is how they use tanka not as literature, but as communication. They talk to friends and strangers online and use tanka to illustrate something they have seen or experienced. They often accompany their tanka with images, links, and other items that provide context and amplify their conversation. Because their primary goal is to express themselves as effectively as possible, they have written eloquent, natural language poetry.  M. Kei, Editor <P> ~K~ <P> M. Kei<BR> Editor, <I>Atlas Poetica </I> <p><BR><BR><BR> "Image courtesy of USGS National Center for EROS and NASA Landsat Project Science Office" <P><hr> <p><BR><BR><BR> <h4>Issue Notes: </h4> <P><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Times Roman" color="#000000" size="2"> <img src="http://www.themetpress.com/atlaspoetica/images/atpo4_toc.jpg" border="0" align="left" alt="Atlas Poetica 4 Table of Contents"><BR> </font> <BR> <BR> </td></tr></table> <!-- ^ END INNER TABLE 2 --> </td></tr></table> <!-- ^ END MAIN TABLE --> <!-- v BEGIN FOOTER --> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Times Roman" color="#FFFFFF" size="1"> &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Copyright &copy; 2009 by Modern English Tanka Press. All Rights Reserved. </font> </body></html>