My Dear Friends:
NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone this morning: 2. 1 M pageveiws (FYI: NeverEnding Story reached 2 M pageviews on June 13 2024)
I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this poetry journey. And NeverEnding Story now seeks the haiku and tanka that can bite and bite hard.
The accepted haiku and tanka will be translated into Chinese and posted on NeverEnding Story and X. And you are welcome to follow me on X at @ericcoliu (7 following, 4,747 followers).
And I'm here to to announce I will not be moving to Bluesky or another friendly social media/platform.
It's because
On #ElonMusk's X, one of the things a #Twitter #Poet is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions, especially the ones regarding #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump
-- paraphrasing Salman Rushdie #quote #writing #FightBack
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.
-- Toni Morrison, "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear"
Poetry is insurrection, resurrection, and insubordination -- against amnesia of every sort, against every form of oppression, dispossession and indifference. And against the drowning noise of other words.
-- Anne Michaels, "Infinite Gradation"
And
A poem after a poem after a poem is POWER!
paraphrasing Margaret Atwood
Chen-ou
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