Hot News: New Milestone, the Highest Monthly Pageviews, 221, 461 and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone yesterday at midnight: the HIGEST monthly pageviews, 221,461 (FYI: it reached 2753, 250 pageviews at midnight and 2.5 M pageviews on August 20, 2025) 

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 (5 following, 4,954 followers).

drenched 

in sweat and hot tears 

I push, pushing 

the last line of my tanka 

out into this October light 😅

And

The proper response to a poem is another poem. 😉

-- Phyllis Webb

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

-- Anaïs Nin

A poem after a poem after a poem is POWER!

-- paraphrasing Margaret Atwood

Look forward to reading your poetry

Chen-ou