Hello everyone! Robbie and I would like to thank everyone who submitted tanka, tanka prose, & experimental tanka to the 2025 anthology.
The submission period is now closed.
Our target publishing date is the first week in December 2025. Please subscribe to Tanka Tuesday.com to stay in touch. We’ll post updates on our progress.
If you have any questions, contact Robbie or me at tankatuesdaypoetry@gmail.com.
🌻 Robbie & Colleen 🌻
“Advice from a sunflower. Be bright, sunny, and positive. Know your roots. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine, and hold your head up high. Keep on growing. Even on the darkest days, stand tall and find the sunlight.“
~ Unknown
Are you ready to learn how to craft Japanese and American poetry? Consider this book the first step on your journey to learning the basics of how to craft syllabic poetry. Inside, you will discover many new forms, syllable combinations, and interpretations of the different Japanese and American forms and structures of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, renga/solo renga, gogyohka, haibun, tanka prose, the cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry. So… what are you waiting for? Let’s craft syllabic poetry together!
A yearly Anthology of tanka, tanka prose, and experimental tanka
Sunflower Tanka Anthology 
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