Category: Editor’s Notes

tinywords got its start with a simple inspiration: Haiku are perfectly suited to the 160-character limit imposed by SMS text messaging. Now, a similar notion has

This is how I hope to publish the new tinywords: I will arrange collections of short poetry into issues. There may also be art and essays, perhaps even a review or two.

UPDATE 11/25/2009: We are no longer accepting submissions. Thanks to everyone who submitted poetry or art for this issue. tinywords is now accepting submissions

Last week, NPR and WBUR radio program On Point held an hourlong discussion of haiku. Guests included Frogpond editor George Swede and tinywords publisher d. f. tweney.

Apologies for the delay! We have just two more poems in issue 11.3, and will be open to submissions for the next issue later this week.

It’s been awhile, but tinywords will begin publishing a new issue before long. Like previous issues, we’ll publish one poem per day, starting in September

We?ve published the last poem from issue 12.1 of tinywords and are now open for submissions for our next issue. tinywords 13.1 will again be an open issue, without a

We?ve published the last poem from issue 13.1 of tinywords?and are now open for submissions for our next issue. tinywords 13.2 will again be an?open issue, with no

Time for another writing?prompt. While we are assembling the next issue, tinywords invites you to get inspired by Ray?Rasmussen?s photograph above,?taken in Willmore

We are nearing the end of tinywords 13.2 and will begin accepting submissions for our next issue on October 1st, 2013. tinywords 13.3 will again be an open issue, without

Time for a quiet autumn stroll in the park while we assemble tinywords 13.3. Okay, this issue’s photo prompt is from New York City’s Central Park so you’re

  So, here’s the image we’ve chosen as a writing prompt for the upcoming issue 14.1: Spring in Cascade Canyon, Mill Valley, California, courtesy

Hello, haiku fans: tinywords resumes Monday with a new issue!

It’s that time again. Time to submit. We’ve reached the end of tinywords 14.1. There will now be a brief pause while we prepare the next issue. Starting

For the tinywords issue 14.2 writing prompt we?ve chosen a bench along Asilomar Beach, Pacific Grove, California. (Image courtesy of Craig.) We hope you?ll have

With Ed Markowski’s holiday poem we conclude tinywords issue 14.2. And OPEN our next reading period for tinywords 15.1. Thanks all for visiting. Now’s

Billy Collins’ poem “Awake in the dark”  closes out tinywords issue 15.1. Now it’s time to OPEN our next reading period for our next issue,

As we assemble the new issue of tinywords, 15.2, we hope you’ll look up and be inspired by Michele L. Harvey’s airy vision of summer, “Firmament.”

Thanks everyone for reading your daily dose of tinywords. Barbara Kaufman’s haiga “Wildflower Walk” closes out issue 15.2. That means we can

It?s another new year and with it another writing prompt from your friends here at tinywords. A writer’s inspiration is a mystery indeed and this shaft of light

With Bouwe Brouwer’s “abandoned beach house,” we wrap up issue #16.1 of tinywords. Thanks to everyone for dropping by. Let’s do it again.

  Sometimes, a picture can trigger words. An image elicits emotion. This is a guiding principle behind the writing of haiku. And perhaps other short poems. While

With Dietmar Tauchner?s ?closing time? we wrap up issue #16.2 of tinywords. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by. It?s time now to make it all

A mainstay of haiku and much of short form poetry is seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. This issue’s writing prompt features the interaction of charged

With Dave Serjeant?s ?last one in? we wrap up issue # 17.1 of?tinywords. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by. It?s time now to begin again. Our

Welcome to Mars. Plenty of room to roam and scout out that perfect picnic spot. Or maybe you see something entirely different. In this writing prompt we share a scene

With Hannah Mahoney’s “the high meadow” we wrap up issue #17.2 of tinywords. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by. It’s

The thing about a writing life is that you never know where the path is going to lead. Here in North America spring is just around the corner and in this photo image by Jim

With Susan Mallernee’s “summer’s end” tinywords 18.1 also comes to an end. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by.

With Joanne E. Miller’s poem “every love story”?tinywords?18.2 also has ended. Thank you to all our subscribers and readers for dropping by.

Spring is just a few weeks away here in the northern hemisphere and TINYWORDS 19.2 has ended with Marrietta McGregor’s haiku “spring breeze”

Summer is winding down here in the northern hemisphere and tinywords 20.1 has now ended with Ann K. Schwader’s haiku “in the space”. The submission

Winter is still in full swing here in the northern hemisphere but spring is on the way.? TINYWORDS 20.2?has now ended with Victor Ortiz?s haiku ?last light.”

Winter’s chill is still with us here in the northern hemisphere but spring is around the corner. TINYWORDS 21.2 has now ended with Bob Lucky’s haibun, The Triumph of

tinywords 22.2 has now ended with Kerry J. Heckman’s “telescope images”. The submission window for tinywords 23.1 will open on February 1st and remain open until

tinywords 24.1 has now ended with Maeve O’Sullivan’s haiku “I shake the sand.” We will be on pause until the next issue, 24.2, begins at the end of September. The submission

It’s that time again. tinywords 24.2 has now ended with Elisa Theriana’s “until we meet again”.  We will be on pause until the next issue, 25.1, begins late

TINYWORDS 25.2 came to a close with Nivedita N’s haiku “lone walk”.  We will take a pause now while we work on the next issue, 26.1, that will begin in late March. Submissions