A critical essay on how the spread of social media reshapes the relationship between the poetic speaker and the living author, as well as the ideas of personal expression and realism in tanka. Distinguishing the in-work "I" from cases in which it overlaps with the author, it considers tanka expression in an age of multiple performed identities.

A critical essay that reconsiders the relationship among the poetic "I," the author, and realism through tanka in the age of social media.