You can order it from Lulu for $10 plus shipping by clicking on the cover image to the right. (For a limited time, it’s available for the discount price of $8.50.)

Anne is also selling the cover art as a limited-edition, signed print for $20 plus shipping. It’s an archival pigment print on cotton rag paper; the paper measures 8.25″ x 11.70″ with white borders around edges. She was gracious enough to send me a print and I am delighted with it. You can buy the print on Etsy.

I am also pleased to make a special offer: For $12 (including free shipping for U.S. addresses) I will send you a copy of this issue plus a signed broadsheet: “On Haiku and Micropoetry.” This is #8 in Cross+Roads Press’s Broadside Beat series, and features an essay on haiku by d. f. tweney, a selection of poems from tinywords, and art by Jerry West, all lovingly assembled and published by the inimitable Wisconsin poet Norbert Blei. This offer is open to the first 50 people who send a $12 check to me at 245 N. Claremont St., San Mateo, CA 94401. For international addresses, email me for the shipping cost.

This is the “cities” themed issue of tinywords that appear in the fall of 2010. If you’d like to read it online, it’s available in our archives.

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:

Kathe L. Palka,

Peter Newton,

David Serjeant, and

John Emil Vincent.

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.

There will be a brief pause while we read for the next issue, which will start in late April or early May. If you’d like to contribute, we are accepting submissions through May 8.

This issue wouldn’t have been possible without the help of assistant editors Peter Newton, Kathe L. Palka, David Serjeant and John Emil Vincent. Many thanks to them for their diligent, thoughtful reading of our many submissions.*

The cover art is based on an image by Tim Haynes.

We hope to produce a PDF and print version of this issue soon.

* As always, submissions to tinywords are read blind (i.e. the editors cannot see the authors’ names). Editors do not vote or comment on their own submissions.

Wondering what happened to the daily haiku here? tinywords has been on a brief break while we prepare the next issue. We’ll resume publishing this week. Stay tuned!

You can read all of the poems in issue 10.3 right here. I also invite you to check out the tinywords 10.3 e-book, a nicely laid-out PDF you can read online or download.

We also offer a lovely print edition of tinywords 10.3 for $10.

The e-book and print edition have cover art generously supplied by Anne Smith, an artist and illustrator.

This issue has an urban theme, so most of the haiku, tanka and other very short poems you’ll see in the upcoming months have to do with cities (even if very loosely).

I’m very proud of the poetry that we’ll be featuring in this issue. Once again we were overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of submissions, and it was difficult to say no to many of them. I think that the 50-odd poems we’ve selected are very good, and I hope you’ll agree.

This issue would not have been possible without the enthusiastic, able, and intelligent help of assistant editors Peter Newton, David Serjeant and John Emil Vincent.

The cover art (of the Empire State building) is based on a photograph by Thomas Hawk, and is used under a Creative Commons license.

The tinywords website runs on WordPress and is hosted by Birdhouse Hosting.

If you are interested in helping with future issues of tinywords, either by editing or by helping with print design and layout, contact me please: dylan (at) tinywords dot com. You may also want to consider making a donation to tinywords to help offset our web hosting fees.

updated June 2011 with links to e-book and print edition

There is a printed version of this issue available! It’s a handsomely-formatted print edition with just one poem per page, and it’s available for just $10 from Lulu.com, a print-on-demand service. (Note: If you buy before the end of October, there’s a 20% discount, bringing it to just $8!)

Issue 10.2 is also available as a free e-book on Scribd.com, a document-sharing service.

Of course, you can always read every poem in tinywords issue 10.2 right here on tinywords.com.

Please see our submissions page for guidelines and a submissions form.

For this issue, we’re looking for haiku and short poems with an urban theme.

Both the quantity and quality of work submitted for this issue were astonishing. Over a 15-day period, we received 875 submissions, including poems, haiga and haibun.

Selecting three months’ worth of daily poems from that incredible pool was really difficult — not just because of the volume, but because we had to say no to many terrific poems. If your work didn’t find its way into this issue, please rest assured that’s not necessarily a judgment on its quality, even in the editors’ own admittedly idiosyncratic estimation.

In the end we picked a bit over 50 poems for this issue — 54 to be exact. These will appear over the next two and a half months, at the end of which we plan to publish a printed and bound version of this issue, as we did with issue 10.1.

This issue was edited by tinywords publisher d. f. tweney, with assistance from Shae Davidson and John Emil Vincent. The background art is based on a photograph by Matteo Angelino. The tinywords website runs on WordPress, and is hosted at Birdhouse Hosting.

It takes a lot of work to put an issue of tinywords together, so I am looking for coeditors. If you are interested in helping with future issues of tinywords, either by editing or by helping with print design and layout, contact me please: dylan (at) tinywords dot com.

Update 10/11/2010: There is a printed version of this issue available! It’s a handsomely-formatted print edition with just one poem per page, and it’s available for $10 from Lulu.com, a print-on-demand service.

Issue 10.2 is also available as a free e-book on Scribd.com, a document-sharing service.

Issue 10.1 is now complete, and I’m pleased to be able to offer it as a printed book.

This is something I’ve wanted to do with tinywords for a long time. There is something about the physicality of a book that makes for a completely different experience: Not better or worse, but different. It’s more tactile, more conducive to relaxed reading, more leisurely, and feels less evanescent.

I’ve taken a lot of care to present the poems as carefully and beautifully in this volume as they appear here on the web site. Each poem stands on its own page, with lots of room to “breathe,” and the layout I think is simple without becoming monotonous.

Thanks to Lulu, a print-on-demand service, the print version of tinywords is just $9 plus shipping. If you buy a copy, about three dollars will go to tinywords, and we’ll use that money for the next edition and for our web hosting fees.

I hope you like this edition of tinywords. Of course, you can still browse through all of the poems in the issue 10.1 archive here, and you can read an electronic version of the print issue on Scribd, a document-sharing service, for free.

A few notes about issue 10.1: It was edited by d. f. tweney, with help from Shae Davidson, David Jensen, and John Emil Vincent.

The background art (the drawing of a calla lily) is by d. f. tweney.

The summer issue, 10.2, will begin appearing here tomorrow, with a new, summer-themed look. I hope you’ll join us for it!