Just a quick post to announce having placed 2nd in the 2015 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest. Here is my placing tanka:

table to table
the smile
of the waitress
never stops
working its wings

José Angel Araguz
Cincinnati, Ohio

Check out the rest of the results here.

Thank you to judges Carole MacRury and Laura Maffei! Thank you also to Janet Lynn Davis who surprised me with the news via phone last week!

The Tanka Society of America will be posting judges’ comments at a later time. I’ll make sure to keep you folks posted.

See you Friday!

Jose