About the Book
Each in Our Own Way is the Tanka Society of America's 2024 Members' Anthology, edited by Michele L. Harvey. This collection features English-language tanka, a five-line verse form, by 168 poets from throughout the United States and Canada, and around the world. As Harvey puts it, "Here these individual voices merge to give a wide-ranging taste of what tanka's five lines can offer. Its breadth, its elasticity, its spirit, its embrace of life from the everyday to the sublime." She notes that tanka draws on feelings, "turning them into poetry. All life's struggles and disappointment, love, family, friends, loss and death are here expressed as valued poetic subjects. Give me the five short lines of tanka, and I'll show you the treasures of the heart." Contributors to Each in Our Own Way include: Margi Abraham, Rupa Anand, Cynthia Anderson, Jenny Ward Angyal, an'ya, Eric Arthen, Joanna Ashwell, Susan Aurinko, Sharon Hammer Baker, Leslie Bamford, Maxianne Berger, Jerome Berglund, Shiva Bhusal, Sally Biggar, Peggy Hale Bilbro, Bing Bingham, Elizabeth Black, Michael Blaine, Shawn Blair, Michelle Brock, Gail Brooks, Randy Brooks, Dawn Bruce, John Budan, Susan Burch, Ann Corbett Burke, Janet Butler, Claire Vogel Camargo, Pris Campbell, Theresa A. Cancro, Renee Howard Cassese, Eve Castle, Anna Cates, David Chandler, Jim Chessing, Jackie Chou, Ella-Marie Cronin Christensen, Kersten Christianson, Margaret Chula, Tom Clausen, Marcyn Del Clements, Howard Colyer, Linda Conroy, Tim Cremin, Mary Davila, Barbara E. Davis, Billie Dee, Juan Edgardo De Pascuale, Jack Douthitt, C. Jean Downer, Pauli Dutton, Tim Dwyer, Robert Erlandson, Michael L. Evans, Claire Everett, Michael Flanagan, Sylvia Forges-Ryan, Jenny Fraser, Diane Funston, William Scott Galasso, Nicholas Gentile, John S. Gilbertson, Susan Godwin, Mel Goldberg, LeRoy Gorman, James Haddad, Johnnie Johnson Hafernik, Lorraine Haig, Hazel Hall, Jon Hare, Charles Harmon, Carole Harrison, Michele L. Harvey, Betsy Hearne, Janet Ruth Heller, Reid Hepworth, David Lee Hill, C. William Hinderliter, Ruth Holzer, Jacqueline Korschun Hyman, Rick Jackofsky, Gerry Jacobson, Carmelita T. Jaramillo, Richard Jordan, Sangita Kalarickal, Barbara Kaufmann, William Kerr, Michael Ketchek, Keitha Keyes, Roy Kindelberger, Mariko Kitakubo, Mari Konno, Robert Kusch, Andrew Lansdown, Peter Larsen, Lynne Leach, Michael H. Lester, Ann Marie Liakos, Antoinette Libro, Chen-ou Liu, Bob Loomis, Linda L. Ludwig, Heather Lurie, Kathleen Caster Mace, Kate MacQueen, Richard L. Matta, Giselle Maya, Joy McCall, Rita R. Melissano, Vicki Miko, Ross Moore, Sherri J Moye-Dombrosky, Genie Nakano, David F. Noble, Jan O'Loughlin, Louis Osofsky, Lorraine A Padden, Marianne Paul, Alan Peat, Patricia Pella, James B. Peters, Marjorie Pezzoli, Madhuri Pillai, Orrin Préjean, Janet S. Qually, Kala Ramesh, David C. Rice, Elaine Riddell, Edward J. Rielly, Ce Rosenow, John Rowe, Suraja Menon Roychowdhury, Barbara Sabol, Jacob D. Salzer, Sigrid Saradunn, Judith Morrison Schallberger, Bonnie J Scherer, Taura Scott, Don M. Sharp, Jr., Adelaide Shaw, Mary O. Singer, Juhee Singh, Catherine Smith, Sheila Sondik, Joshua St. Claire, Bob Stone, Debbie Strange, Jane Stuart, Laurance Sumners, Margaret Tau, Leon Tefft, John Tehan, Julie Thorndyke, Weidong Tian, Xenia Tran, C.X. Turner, Christine L. Villa, Kazuaki Wakui, Susan Weaver, Michael Dylan Welch, Neal Whitman, Kathabela Wilson, Rick Wilson, Sean M. Wilson, Beatrice Yell, Nitu Yumnam, Li Zhuang.
