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Recent Examples of tanka
Each photo is combined with a tanka (a five-line, 31-syllable poem) written through the lens of a 10-year-old girl encountering the Jews for the first time, composed by poet Hiroko Yamagata.
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Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
His haiku and tanka translations influenced Pound, Rexroth, and others.
—Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
His haiku and tanka translations influenced Pound, Rexroth, and others.
—Jonathan Dee, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tanka
Noun
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Reignite creativity by making something useless—a haiku poem about your morning coffee, a sculpture of yourself, a short story intended for no audience.—
Dale Whelehan,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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This review is close to being a haiku.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
22 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The construction is the same -- three lines, 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables on the third line -- but the tone and subject matter of a senryu is different.—
Mary Colurso | [email protected],
al,
19 Nov. 2020
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The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure.—
Carole Goldberg,
courant.com,
7 Aug. 2019
Noun
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Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.—
Adriana Lee,
WWD,
26 Nov. 2024
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“Tanka.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tanka. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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