Readers are encouraged to try their own tanka practice as a means of self-discovery.  Looking to the internet for something important and real we discover disjointed facts, brief headlines and self-congratulatory blogs instead.  Inner Art seeks to develop a place to breathe deeply and be still.

Inner Art publishes quarterly.  Our second issue will be available May 1, 2012.  Tanka Practice describes how you can integrate tanka writing into your life.  Submissions tells you how to share your efforts with us.  

allie marini batts

allison miller

anne tourney

Leslie is a writer, artist and psychotherapist.  She developed Inner Art Journal as an online journal devoted to seeking and sharing direct insight.  Writing poetry to mark moments of perception and gratitude, her recent work has been published in the Buddhist Poetry Review, Atlas Poetica, Lynx, Ribbons, Prune Juice and Notes from the Gean.  She studied with John Gardner and Liz Rosenberg at Binghamton University where she obtained her BA in Creative Writing and Literature in 1981.

Nelima is a poet and psychotherapist living and working in upstate New York. She writes gorgeous, minimalistic tanka poetry some of which can be viewed in this journal.