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* sharing some news & some tanka!

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Just a quick post to officially announce that my second full length collection of poetry, Small Fires, has just been accepted for publication in 2017 from FutureCycle Press. This collection will feature the poems “Joe” and “El Rio” among others.

FutureCycle are also the same good people who published my prose poem/flash fiction chapbook, Reasons (not) to Dance. I’m excited to be working with them again. Stay tuned for further news come 2017.

To celebrate the Small Fires news, I thought I’d share my contribution to the Journeys into Tanka project that’s going on via the Tanka Society of America Facebook page. Poets were asked to share a tanka as well as some words on their journey into the form, what it means for them and how. Readers are welcome to respond in the comments with their own tanka and/or tanka-related prose.

Special thanks to Marilyn Hazelton, TSA president and editor of red lights, for the invitation to contribute!

tsa journeys

See you Friday!

José

* tanka contest news!

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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