M. Kei
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Location | Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Kei is a tall ship sailor and internationally acclaimed tanka poet who has recently added fiction writing to his literary activities. He served his apprenticeship on a Chesapeake Bay skipjack and currently crews with a fully rigged ship. Kei's short form poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies around the world. He is the Editor-in-chief of Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka series; Editor of Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart, author of Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay, author of Slow Motion : The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack , and edits Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka. He recently published a series of gay nautical novels, Pirates of the Narrow Seas . |
| Interests | tall ships, Age of Sail, tanka poetry, Chesapeake Bay, Kalmar Nyckel, skipjacks, gay, bisexual, art, history, museums, day trips |
| Favorite movies | Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Seven Samurai |
| Favorite music | Anything by Johnny Cash, Holst: The Planets, Bob Segar, La Makina, Eric Whitacre: Ghost Train, Daddy Yankee: Dame mas gasolina, Bob Segar and other 60s and 70s rock, Roylance and Gavin: Tall Ships Suite, Latin music, classical music, rock and roll, country & Western (both kinds!), and almost anything where the singers enunciate well enough to be understood. |
| Favorite books | Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert |