S7E53 The Poetry that is Tanka

Poetry Pea - haiku and other English Language Japanese short forms

shownotes

This is the very last Poetry Peacast of season 7, a special one, full of your original tanka poetry.

Thank you to all of you loyal listeners and all my new poet friends who have joined us this year. It’s a treat for me to spend time with you and to read your work during the submission periods.

I enjoy the comments that our lovely editing team make when we read your work and I learn so much from the interaction with them, so thank you to all the members of the various teams, Liam, Robert, Vandana, Lev, Matt, Linda, Shane and Richard and to two of the team who left this year Ron and Lorraine. Much love to you all.

I do need some team members who would be interested in helping to get the Poetry Pea facebook group up, running and continuing. Volunteer if you can and tell me what would you like and expect from us on Facebook? I’m pretty clueless as I haven’t really used it, but I’ll learn…

To everyone who keeps me on my toes with emails, I thank you for them, I can be slow in getting back to you, but I do read all my emails and do my best.

Thanks not just to poets who submitted to the tanka submissions but also to the judges who stepped up to help me, Matt Defibaugh, Robert Horrobin and Lev Hart, but also to Allyson Whipple, who not only judged but sat in for me on the recording of the judging when I was in a bit of a pickle. She’s a star… and you may know this already but she is taking on the editorship of Frogpond Journal next year. Good luck to you Allyson, I hope that won’t mean we hear less from you. Do support Allyson in her new role and inundate her with your work, when you’re not sending it to me of course.

See you next week for season 8!