red lights

Subscriptions: Annual subscriptions include two issues (January and June) $14 US, $15 Canada, $17 elsewhere: payment by check (made payable to “red lights”) in US$ or in cash.

Submissions: You are invited to submit tanka or tan renga (maximum 10 per Submission) and/or tanka sets (maximum 2 per submission no longer than 10 stanzas each) preferably by email.

For snailmail, please include an SASE (1IRC for Canada and overseas submissions. Tanka must be original and unpublished. Rights revert to the author on publication.

Deadlines: Submissions are due in hand April 15th for the June issue and November 15th for the January issue.

Honoraria: Please consider acceptance of your submission as an investment in the evolution of tanka in English worldwide.

war
in Shanghai;
in my garden
red balsam petals
fall, scatter

Mokichi Saito

Readers are invited to meditate on this tanka by Mokichi and reflect on implications of the color red. One or two tanka submissions which seem inspired by the spirit and craft of this tanka will be included in the June issue as Featured Tanka. The poet(s)will also receive a contributor’s copy of that issue. The editor reserves the right to include one or more Featured Tanka or no Featured Tanka.

If you are new to the concept of tanka, please consult
www.tankasocietyofamerica.com
www.tankaonline.com
www.themetpress.com/tankacentral/