tinywords

tinywords is an international, daily magazine of haiku and micropoetry.

Our goal is to publish excellent poetry whose ambitions and effects far outstrip its small size.

From October 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.

After a break of about 16 months, tinywords returned to publication on November 30, 2009, with a broader focus on micropoetry and miniature poetry of all kinds, including but not limited to haiku. We will continue to publish one poem per day, most weekdays.

All contents are, except as noted, copyright (c) by the creators named alongside each work.

Want to know more? Read this longish discussion about tinywords between d. f. tweney and norbert blei.

Fun fact: If you text the word haiku to 41411 you’ll get a random haiku from 2000-2008.

Submission Guidelines

tinywords accepts submissions only during specified windows.

tinywords is accepting submissions from March 1 – March 15, 2010.

To submit work to us, use the form below, or click here for the submission form in a new window.

We prefer work that has not been previously published in any literary journal, though we’ll occasionally republish poems that have appeared elsewhere. Appearance on Twitter, personal blogs or online poetry discussion forums is no impediment to acceptance.

We will respond quickly to all submissions, so please no simultaneous submissions.

Copyright: We ask for nonexclusive permission to publish your work on tinywords, via email and SMS, and in print collections published by tinywords. You retain copyright or Creative Commons licensing for your work. Please do not submit work unless you have the rights to it.

We cannot pay for work published in tinywords.

See the listing for tinywords in Duotrope’s Digest.

Other fine daily poetry sites

• Poetry Daily
• Open Micro
• Falling Off the Mountain (Grant Hackett)
• The Morning Porch (Dave Bonta)

Journals We Like

• Roadrunner (outstanding traditional and experimental haiku)
• Simply Haiku (beautifully curated haiku journal)
• Frogpond (the Haiku Society of America’s quarterly)
• Failbetter (progressive literary magazine)
• Jacket (longstanding, high-quality online literary magazine)
• Brevity (very brief nonfiction essays)

trivia

tinywords is published by d. f. tweney.

This site is powered by WordPress, whose motto is “Code is poetry.” The design is based on a theme by Rob Beschizza and the background image on a photo by DigitalLyte.

As of 1/3/2010, there are 3,266 subscribers to the tinywords email list.