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:

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.

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Editor's Notes, Issue 11.2 | 24 June 2011

12 Responses

  1. Diane Says:
    June 25th, 2011 at 11:45 am

    Many thanks for the hard work and enjoyment we all have in reading such works!!

    Diane

  2. Peter Newton Says:
    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

  3. Edgar Ladouceur Says:
    June 25th, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    Always a real treat to receive same a short burst of stimulus in one's busy life…

  4. snowbirdpress Says:
    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…

  5. E.T. Says:
    July 7th, 2011 at 1:18 pm

    skunky aromas
    force olfactory senses
    to dance endlessly

  6. martin1223 Says:
    July 16th, 2011 at 12:15 am

    leaf shadows
    the sound of a breeze

  7. snowbirdpress Says:
    July 16th, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    wind chimes
    tinkling a song only lovers
    can hear

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    November 17th, 2021 at 2:46 am

    I make the final selections, keeping in mind the preferences and arguments of the other editors.

  9. Springfield Decks Says:
    December 9th, 2021 at 6:27 am

    Much better every submission gets reviewed at least once by each editor,

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    April 25th, 2022 at 8:32 pm

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    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.

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