MET Press / Modern English Tanka Press

MODERN ENGLISH TANKA PRESS is an independent equity publishing house in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to developing and producing both books and periodicals of lasting literary value. It is a family business and treats its customers and partners in publishing like family. MET Press is open to inquiries regarding publication of quality manuscripts on a wide range of subjects. Its publications, primarily trade paperbacks and hardcover books, are produced using modern print-on-demand production and distribution methods.

The MET Press has its own bookstore online at www.themetpress.com/bookstore/ as well as a bookstore at the website of its printer/distributor, Lulu.com.

The special 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. To those ends, Modern English Tanka Press publishes the quarterly journal of western tanka, Modern English Tanka, the journal of poetry of place in modern English tanka, Atlas Poetica, Modern Haiga, a print and digital annual specializing in graphic poetry, and special edition books of tanka and related subjects. It also operates Tanka Central, the internet megasite for tanka, with its popular Tanka News & Haiku Headlines newsletter.

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.