Hot News: A New Milestone, 1.4 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

Launched on the first day of 2013, NeverEnding Story crossed the 1.4 million view mark last night (FYI: On November 5, 2021, NeverEnding Story crossed the 1.3 million view mark).

I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this poetry journey. And look forward to reading your haiku and tanka. 

And join NeverEnding Story to celebrate Tanka Poetry Month and expand the readership base for tanka by tweeting at least one tanka a day throughout the month of May. The hashtags for Tanka Poetry Month are #MayTanka and #NaTankaMo. Please help spread the word about this celebration via your poetry blogs, websites, Facebook pages, and Twitter accounts. 

And NeverEnding Story seeks the tanka that can bite and bite hard. 

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn't "soothe."

-- Jorie Graham

The Dagger of a Poet's Mind

for Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author of "Poetry as Insurgent Art."

Strive to change the world in such a way that there’s no further need to be a dissident. Read between the lives, and write between the lines. Be committed to something outside yourself. 

arrested 

after the Free Expression March

and asked 

if I carry a weapon ...

I hand over my pen

the blood

crusting to claret

on the paper ...

in the jail cell my words

stronger than steel bars

Happy Reading and Writing throughout Tanka Poetry Month

Chen-ou