My Dear Friends:
NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone late last night: 3.2 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.
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.
-- Joyce Carol Oates, who views art as a form of exploration and, at times, a transgression:
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, 5,090 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
A cursor blinks in the white of my screen.
darkness pools around stars
words I never said
words I never sent
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
-- Richard Bach
And
Every time a poem is written, every time a short story is written, it is written not by cunning, but by belief. The beauty, the something, the little charm of the thing to be, is more felt than known.
-- Robert Frost
Look forward to reading your poetry
Chen-ou
Added: I just found this "reading, writing and human connection" remark:
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.
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