Dear Poets: 

This songbirdsonline.com website is closing, but the Songbirds Waka 2005 Anthology ebook can still be viewed at our new website: www.wakasocietyofamerica.com 

Thank you to everyone who supported both the aha and Fleeting Words Contests. They are now canceled, however, we invite you to enter the Ama Pearls International Waka Contest which opens July 15, 2025, see the guidelines posted on the WSA website.

Meanwhile, we invite you to join the Waka Society of America and submit to our new Petals Journal Premier Edition which is accepting submissions until April 31, 2025 and will be published in a new ebook.

If you have any questions above this message, please feel free to email me at: tankaanya@gmail.com