Friday, March 16, 2018

SCI(NA)KU TANKA!

Roxanne Barbour has invented a new hay(na)ku variation: sci(na)ku tanka. Some are forthcoming in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's journal, Star*Line. For this form, add a speculative element and the word-per-line count is

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1

A reverse sci(na)ku tanka would be

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2
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3

Go, World!


See all (or most as I don't know if I'm keeping up) of the hay(na)ku variations at https://eileenrtabios.com/haynaku/haynaku-variations/  Meanwhile, there are also visual manifestations, like this painting by poet-painter Thomas Fink:


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