..hello poets/poetry lovers..
..hello all.>I'm Spiros Zafiris, a Montreal poet who once sold
approx. 5,000 copies of my two self-published books of poetry, in the span of 3
years..presently, I'm very slowly formatting, using OpenOffice 4.1.1,
a book of tanka which I'll probably self-publish with the POD outfit, CreateSpace
..many of my tanka have appeared in various periodicals, anthologies, & ezines
—each one, a publisher of tanka and related forms..back in 2012, I won one
of the Certificates of Merit (13 were awarded; approx 570 entries) from
Japan's Nihon Kajin tanka club's contest, for tanka in English..the winning tanka (one of 4 or
5 I sent in) was selected by Jane Reichhold, one of the 3 judges, who
is very popular in Japan, for her contribution to Haiku/Tanka & related genres..thanks
for the opportunity to show some of my poems to you, here—(mostly tanka and longer ones too)—and
I'm sure I'll benefit from reading the other poets' work found here.>sp
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