EDITORIALS — Capturing the Ineffable - Denis Garrison, editor.
Tanka in Western Tradition: Sneaking Tanka from the Canon - Michael McClintock, contributing editor.
TANKA — Hortensia Anderson, Aurora Antonovic, Megan Arkenberg, Pamela A. Babusci, Dave Bacharach, Maxianne Berger, Tom Blessing, Shawn Bowman, Marjorie Buettner, Janet Lynn Davis, Margarita Engle, Amelia Fielden, Denis M. Garrison, Victor P. Gendrano, Barry George, Bernard Gieske, Sanford Goldstein, Martin Grenfell, Michele L. Harvey, CW Hawes, Elizabeth Howard, Roger Jones, Kirsty Karkow, M. Kei, Michael Ketchek, Larry Kimmel, Joseph V. Kleponis, Deborah P Kolodji, Jean LeBlanc, Angela Leuck, Bob Lucky, Cynthia Ludlow, Terra Martin, Francis Masat, Michael McClintock,
Jo McInerney, Annette Mineo, Mary E. Moore, Marilyn Murphy, Gautam Nadkarni, Amy Nawrocki, Peter Newton, Stephen A. Peters, Jack Prewitt, Patricia Prime, Kala Ramesh, Alexis Rotella, Adelaide B. Shaw, Trish Shields, Billy Simms, Guy Simser, Paul Smith, André Surridge, Barbara A. Taylor, A.Thiagarajan, Carolyn Thomas, Chuck Tripi, Ella Wagemakers, Linda Jeannette Ward, N. C. Whitehead, Liam Wilkinson, Fran Witham, and Jeffrey Woodward.
ESSAYS & ARTICLES — The Editors, Tanka Year in review: 2007 and Tanka Venues: 2008 edition. Marjorie Buettner, The Poet's Cabin. M. Kei, The Labyrinth of Tanka.
BOOK NOTES & REVIEWS — Haiku, Triku, Tanka and More: Fifty Years of Japan - Inspired Fixed Form Verse by Harold Wright. Note by the editor. Ouch! Senryu that Bite by Alexis Rotella. Note by Liam Wilkinson. Recent Titles from Modern English Tanka Press. Note by the publisher. Straggling into Winter: a tanka journal by Kathy Kituai. Review by the editor. Just Passing Through: Tanka, Haiku, Haibun by Jean LeBlanc. Review by the editor. shorelines : haiku, haibun, and tanka by Kirsty Karkow. Review by M. Kei.
This issue's cover art, "Windmill Blues," is by Karen McClintock.
