New issue starting next week
tinywords will begin a new issue on Monday, June 27.
It’s taken more than the usual amount of time to get this issue together, due to some complications in my own life. (It’s mostly all good: busy-ness with my kids, new job, in-laws visiting.) As usual, I couldn’t have done it without the assiduous and generous help of tinywords’ board of editors:
David Serjeant, and
As always, we read submissions blind (without seeing the authors’ names), rank the submissions through voting, and discuss many of the works in the queue. Every submission gets reviewed at least once by each editor, and sometimes is read many more times than that, although editors don’t vote or comment on their own work, if they’ve submitted anything. I make the final selections, keeping in mind the preferences and arguments of the other editors.
Out of 330 submissions (many of which included 3-5 poems) I’ve selected 69 pieces that I think are excellent, including tanka, haiga, and haibun as well as haiku. There is a range from traditional to experimental. I hope you enjoy this issue.
The background image for this issue is a photograph by Susan Barnett.
June 25th, 2011 at 11:45 am
Many thanks for the hard work and enjoyment we all have in reading such works!!
Diane
June 25th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Time to stick our heads in the clouds. . .love the background, dylan.
Can't wait to read the poems again.
–Peter
June 25th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Always a real treat to receive same a short burst of stimulus in one's busy life…
June 25th, 2011 at 7:08 pm
the rain ceases
humidity rises in heat
and skunk aroma
At least the rain stopped. Hope this posts…
July 7th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
skunky aromas
force olfactory senses
to dance endlessly
July 16th, 2011 at 12:15 am
leaf shadows
the sound of a breeze
July 16th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
wind chimes
tinkling a song only lovers
can hear
November 17th, 2021 at 2:46 am
I make the final selections, keeping in mind the preferences and arguments of the other editors.
December 9th, 2021 at 6:27 am
Much better every submission gets reviewed at least once by each editor,
March 30th, 2022 at 9:26 pm
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April 25th, 2022 at 8:32 pm
This is awesome!
May 20th, 2022 at 1:33 am
I understand that every submission gets reviewed at least once by each editor, and sometimes is read many more times.
March 9th, 2023 at 10:31 pm
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March 27th, 2023 at 10:59 pm
Can't wait to read the new poet entries!
August 21st, 2023 at 6:42 pm
Any updates here?
January 29th, 2024 at 3:28 pm
Even though you are busy with family life, you still give time to look at all their submissions. I hope the one you choose in the slot is deserving.