tinywords 2.0, maybe
From late 2000 until June 2008, tinywords published one original haiku nearly every weekday. It grew to become the largest-circulation haiku publication in English, in any medium, and published over 1,500 haiku by more than 300 contributors, including rank beginners as well as some of the leading lights of the haiku world.
tinywords has not been active since mid-2008, but I’m considering bringing it back online. If I do, it will be in a new form, probably not exclusively focused on haiku — though haiku will continue to be an essential component of the publication.
I’m still working out the details and rustling up co-conspirators. In the meantime, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
All of the haiku published on tinywords from 2000-2008 will remain online, at their original URLs. To dive into the archive, why not start with a random haiku?
October 18th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
I think highlighting a greater variety of short form content would be an incredibly useful and fun thing. My friend, @altissima, Tweets poetry. But no one is looking to collect and curate that kind of content. I’d love to see tinywords adopt the haiku’s spirit of compression but expand beyond its boundaries.
October 19th, 2009 at 3:19 am
Hi Dylan,
good to read You again.
If You need any help with new Tinywords – I’m here.
Gosia Zamorska, Poland
October 19th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
D.T.
___I have missed TW; visited often the random choices and re-enjoyed as presented.
___Moving into senryu, perhaps haiga or haibun or further minimals such as Cinquain, and other forms… would be a “fresh light,” and TW would be welcomed back by many.
tnx _m
October 19th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Alexis, you’re so right: there are a bunch of people using twitter for short-form poetry and flash fiction, and the medium is encouraging some interesting experiments. There’s even a twitter-only journal that I’ve run across (can’t remember its name right now though). Even tinywords was doing it at @tinywords until I stopped publishing. And in fact, “poetry via SMS” was how tinywords got started, back in the pre-Twitter days. So there will definitely continue to be some synchronicity between tinywords and twitter.
October 20th, 2009 at 10:11 am
i love short poetic forms s …and then have been reading haiku for about a year….
I would love to see the work here…and now here from Magyar's, Dylan
wishes,
devika
October 24th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Great to see tinywords coming back 'live' and showing haiku and other good micropoetry. Welcome back to a great originator!
Alan
October 24th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
dft-
wb.
autumn leaves–
bare branches
all leading back to the same tree
October 26th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Hi all,
I am eager to see the new project:
I miss your daily haiku in my inbox…
Andrea
October 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Hi Dylan,
Glad to see you're planning a comeback, I have missed my doses of tinywords. You published some great haiku (yes, mine among them, but it is a real compliment!).
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 am
The first thing would do every morning was to log into T.W., even before I read my mail. I have missed it very much and will be delighted to have it return ! I also like the idea of diversity by using other versions of short poetry.
Watcha waitin” for, Dylan ? Let's get those words rollin'.
November 12th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Looking forward to T.W. I just added it to my poetry morning.
November 20th, 2009 at 4:08 am
Great to see my feedreader tell me something happening over here! I've missed TinyWords. Looking forward to enjoying it's reincarnation.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Great to see my feedreader tell me something happening over here! I've missed TinyWords. Looking forward to enjoying it's reincarnation.