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Tanka and Tankaesque Poetry Sample 1

how distant those years when I worked for a slight wage, it helped my wife ear her degree a magic in the getting paid                     - Sanford Goldstein (Japan) the moon turned me on my head a white crow asked if i was truly dead or merely dying                 - old pajamas (USA) On The Grizzly I cross my life in five diensions the ridgeline is clear from the glacial slop for the next shift                  - jacob kobina ayiah mensah (Ghana/ Spain)
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Call for Submissons

The Rough Sheet Tanka Journal(TRSTJ) is seeking submissions of tanka and all tankaesque poetry for its 3rd edition. TRSTJ is the first literary journal in Africa dedicated to tanka and all tankaesque poetry. The journal seeks to feature new and emerging and as well as old tanka poets, writers and artists from anywhere in the world. It encourages tanka innovations in experimental, analytic, journalistic, or prosaic forms while maintaining the lyric flavours. It considers anything of tanka as long as it is not libelous, obscence, or unprintable. Please, anything of tanka or tankaesque poems can be waka, kyoka, gogyohka, gogyoshi, ryuka, sedoka, rokugyohshi, mondo, cherita, konu-na, sumdzi, doyuta, tristin, oriwan, soyukwa(n), nokwa, fibashi, bayika, rutamkan, brakayohka, ransaka, ruyoka, or making katuata, lanturne, quinzaine, cinquain, etc, work as tanka. Submissions can be poetry, painting, drawing, collage, essays, and critical reviews, or hybrid in any language wit
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