Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Hot News: New Milestone, 2.5 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone late this morning: 2.5 M pageveiws (FYI: On June, 13 2024, it reached 2 M pageviews) 

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 (4 following, 4,922 followers).


on the windowsill
two canaries singing
to each other
I tweet and retweet
NeverEnding Story  😋


In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, "poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
-- Seamus Heaney

And

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


I would like to conclude today's "Hot News" post with the following latest entry of Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXVII: "'relocation plan'"
written in response to Haaretz, Aug. 20,2025: Defense Minister Approves Plan to Conquer Gaza City; 130,000 IDF Reservists to Be Mobilized

"Relocation Plan"

summer odors  ...
Gazans nowhere to go, no way
to get pieces of bread

ghost town
a Gazan's mind a labyrinth
of dead bodies

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