Bright Stars continues to bring the best mix of innovative, experimental, and traditional tanka to print. Tanka, kyoka, gogyoshi, tanka prose, and tanka sequences, along with sedoka and cherita, fill its pages. Poets, both known and new, take advantage of the freedom to express the possibilities of a liberated form. Bright Stars is as much a conversation as it is a work of literature; poets read and respond to one another, find inspiration, and are moved to follow 'bright stars' to their personal literary epiphany.