About Us
MODERN ENGLISH TANKA PRESS is an independent equity publishing house in Baltimore, Maryland, dedicated to developing and producing both
books and periodicals of lasting literary value. We are a family business and we treat our customers and partners in publishing like family.
We are open to inquiries regarding publication of quality manuscripts on a wide range of subjects. Our publications, primarily trade paperbacks
and hardcover books, are produced using
modern print-on-demand production and distribution methods. We are open to other projects. See our
Publish webpage if you are interested in working with us. Short verse books,
chapbooks, etc. are usually published under our primary imprint, "Modern English Tanka Press." Most other projects would be published under our
specialty imprint, "Gunpowder Valley Press."
The mission of Modern English Tanka Press is to promote the tanka form of poetry, to educate newcomers to tanka about the form's history and
future, techniques and uses, and to work for wider publication of tanka in both specialty and mainstream poetry venues.
To those ends, Modern English Tanka Press publishes the quarterly journal of western tanka,
Modern English Tanka, the journal of poetry of place
in modern English tanka,
Atlas Poetica,
and special edition books of tanka and related subjects, and operates
TankaCentral.com, the internet megasite for tanka, with its popular
Tanka News.
Denis M. Garrison, a literary magazine editor and publisher since the early 1970s, and a member of the
Tanka Society of America,
Haiku Society of America,
Tanka Canada, and
Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society, owns and operates
Modern English Tanka Press, Gunpowder Valley Press, Tanka Central, and Tanka News.
Denis M. Garrison lives near Maryland's Chesapeake Bay
with his wife, Deborah. In the 1970s, he edited Towson University’s literary magazine and taught creative
writing for Johns Hopkins University’s Free University. His poetry's published in Poetry Scotland, Ribbons, Tangled Hair, Eucalypt,
red lights, Nightingale, Trilopia, Simply Haiku, Moonset, Wisteria, Roadrunner, Verse Libre Quarterly, Stirring, World Haiku Review, Haiga Online,
and many others,
in his chapbook, Port of Call and Other Poems, and in his books, Hidden River (haiku), Eight Shades of Blue (haiku), and
The Brink at Logan Pond, a volume of formal poetry,
free verse, and prose poems. His poetry is anthologized in May Dazed, Poets Gone Wild anthology,
The Five-Hole Flute, Fire Pearls. The Dreaming Room, Sixty Sunflowers, and Landfall.
He's edited the webzines, Haiku Harvest, Ku Nouveau, Haiku Noir, Templar Phoenix,
Haiku Cycles, Gunpowder River Poetry, Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, and Loch Raven Review.
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