Hot News: New Milestone, 3. 5 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone late yesterday afternoon: 3.5 M pageveiws (FYI: On January 30, 2026, it reached 3 M pageviews) 

I’m grateful to everyone who has shared this poetry journey. NeverEnding Story now seeks haiku and tanka with teeth—poems that 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 (5 following, 5,185 followers).

on the windowsill

two canaries singing

to each other

I tweet and retweet

NeverEnding Story  😋

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

I mutter

nothing much to write about… 

the blank page  

stares back at me, deeper  

than my unfinished life

However,

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. 

-- Richard Bach

And

These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.

George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, 2021.

Look forward to reading your poetry

Chen-ou