Then I was exposed to manga (Japanese comic books) and became interested in all things Japanese.

I was forced to read Western literature in high school and didn’t care for it. How did you first get exposed to poetry and when did you realize that it was a major passion in your life? Were you interested in poetry in general at first or was it exposure to the tanka form that ignited your interest? He can be followed on Twitter or his website,. Kei has written several sea adventure novels, drawing on his experience working on ships and love of the sea. He is also a prolific editor, publishing the Atlas Poetica journal and numerous anthologies. He is also the author of the award-winning Pirates of the Narrow Seas series of gay naval adventure novels.M.Kei is one of the most prominent tanka poets in modern English, having work appear in dozens of journals and collections. He has edited and authored several other books of poetry and a major journal, Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka.

He is the editor-in-chief of the anthology series, Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka, and the author of Slow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, a log he kept in verse form of several extended trips aboard a skipjack. His publications include over 1200 tanka poems in six languages and ten countries. He lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay and apprenticed aboard a skipjack, a sail-powered oyster dredge. Kei is a tall ship sailor and award-winning poet. He is also the author of the award-winning Pirates of the Narrow Seas series of M.

The Sallee Rovers by M. Kei