Bright Stars: An Organic Tanka Journal (Volume 1)

Bright Stars focuses on the Japanese aesthetic of ‘akarui’—bright, light, illuminated, brilliant, shiny, brassy, active, energetic, noisy, loud, happy, drunk, passionate, wild, playful, vivid, and boundless. That doesn’t mean there is no darkness—black is a color too, but our dark poems are actively dark, not a sighing shade of grey. Bright Stars is a forward-looking anthology of new, fresh, and experimental tanka.