92 Tanka

Auteur

His work will or has appeared in Impspired, The Moon City Review, Cajun Mutt Press, Unavoidable Disaster, Contemporary Haibun Online, Thimble Literary Magazine, Poetry Flash,The New Southerner, Pegasus, Antique Children, The Smoking Poet, The Dispatch LitaReview, The American Mythville Review, The Licking River Review, Inscape, and on semantikon.com. He is the author of two poetry collections, several chapbooks, a collection of short stories, and a novella. He's organized open mics and readings all over the Midwest. He publishes new work often on Instagram (@dirtysacred). He is also the host and producer of the travel story podcast, Record of a Well-Worn Pair of Travel Boots.

Texte du rabat

In these tankas, dirtysacred explores the Spring and all of it's facets internal and external. The tanka, a classical Japanese poetry form, is an ideal form to examine these ideas; but like in his chapbook, GOD'S TIRED PLUMBERS, these tanka -- traditionally understood in English as a 31 syllable style -- aren't your elementary school teacher's tanka. He examines the form itself as he examines the Spring: with lightness and focus.