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Note:  Butterfly Dream: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku, Volume One 2014 and One Man's Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume One 2014 are available online for your reading pleasure. And Butterfly Dream, Volume Two and One Man's Maple Moon, Volume Two will be published in July.

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story was launched on the first day of 2013. Today is its second birthday.

Stats:

Pageviews yesterday: 488
Pageviews last month:11,977
Pageviews last year: 98,560
Average pageviews per day: 270
The most read post: Hot News: 66 Haiku Selected for 2013 Butterfly Dream Anthology (posted on March 7, 2014; pageviews:  1327)

Many thanks for your ongoing support of my project. And look for forward to reading your work (be sure to read the submission guidelines for haiku/tanka)

May 2015 be great for both you and your writing.

first sunrise...
my midlife drained of all
but hunger
for these magic words,
NeverEnding Story

Chen-ou

My Dear Friends:

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

This is the last call for haiku and tanka anthology submissions: no more than 20 haiku/tanka per submission and no simultaneous submissions. Deadline: December 1, 2014 (see submission guidelines for haiku and tanka)

Stats:

Pageviews yesterday: 310
Pageviews last month: 9,542

NeverEnding Story is a great place for your work to reach a wider readership.

Please help me spread the word about the anthology submissions via your poetry blogs, websites, Facebook pages, and Twitter accounts.

Many thanks for your continued support of my translation project.

Chen-ou


Note: In addition to being translated into Chinese and published on NeverEnding Story, the accepted haiku and tanka will be tweeted and re-tweeted by  @storyhaikutanka (NeverEnding Story's Tweeter account: following: 8, followers: 375) and @ericcoliu (Chen-ou Liu's Tweeter account: following: 7, followers: 1,538) respectively to reach a larger readership.

Twitter's Weekly Review ("your week in review"):

Total views: 5,832
Retweets: 239
Favorites: 119

Dear THF Poets:

I am pleased to announce that One Man's Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume One 2014 is now available online for your reading pleasure.  (Note: I'd revised some of Chinese translations. For those whose tanka are included in the anthology, each will receive a copy of its e-book edition within three days)

For more information about this good news, see Hot News:One Man's Maple Moon Volume One 2014

And look forward to reading your tanka (see One Man's Maple Moon, Volume Two: Call for Tanka Submissions Deadline: December 1, 2014)

Many thanks for your continued support of my project.

Chen-ou

Updated, November 16:

This is the last call for haiku and tanka anthology submissions: no more than 20 haiku/tanka per submission and no simultaneous submissions. Deadline: December 1, 2014 (see submission guidelines for haiku and tanka)

Stats:

Pageviews yesterday: 310
Pageviews last month: 9,542

NeverEnding Story is a great place for your work to reach a wider readership.

Chen-ou


Updated, November 4:

Dear THF Poets:

I am pleased to announce that One Man's Maple Moon: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka, Volume One 2014 is now available online for your reading pleasure. 


Dear THF Poets:

I am pleased to announce that Butterfly Dream: 66 Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku, Volume One 2014 is now available online for your reading pleasure.  (Note: I'd revised some of Chinese translations. For those whose haiku are included in the anthology, each will receive a copy of its e-book edition within three days)

For more information about this good news, see Hot News: Butterfly Dream, Volume One 2014

And look forward to reading your haiku (see Butterfly Dream, Volume Two: Call for Haiku Submissions Deadline: December 1, 2014)

Many thanks for your continued support of my project.

Chen-ou

NeverEnding Story just crossed the 120,000 view mark today.

I am grateful for everyone who has been a part of this poetry journey. And look forward to reading your new haiku/tanka (see 2014 anthology submission guidelines for haiku and tanka )


Chen-ou

Marion:

Thanks for your support of my project.

Chen-ou

My Dear Fellow Poets:

I'm pleased to announce 66 tanka selected for One Man's Maple Moon, 2013: Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka.

For more info., see Hot News: 66 Tanka Selected for 2013 One Man's Maple Moon Anthology

Thanks for your support of my project.

Chen-ou

My Dear Fellow Poets:

I'm pleased to announce 66 haiku selected for Butterfly Dream, 2013: Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku. For more info., see Hot News: 66 Haiku Selected for 2013 Butterfly Dream Anthology

Thanks for your support of my project.

Chen-ou

Update:

NeverEnding Story just crossed the 120,000 view mark today.

Stats:

Pageviews yesterday: 250
Pageviews last month: 7,733

I am grateful for everyone who has been a part of this poetry journey. And look forward to reading your new haiku/tanka (see 2014 anthology submission guidelines for haiku and tanka )


Chen-ou


Update:

My Dear Fellow Poets and Readers:

I'm pleased to announce the following 66 tanka selected for One Man's Maple Moon, 2013: Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka. The anthology is scheduled to be published in July. Each poet whose tanka is/are included in the anthology will receive a copy of  its e-book edition.

Please post to all appropriate venues. Your time and help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks for your support of my project. And look forward to reading your new work (see 2014 anthology submission guidelines)

Chen-ou


Update:

My Dear Fellow Poets:

I'm pleased to announce the following 66 haiku selected for Butterfly Dream, 2013: Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku. The anthology is scheduled to be published in July. Each poet whose haiku is/are included in the anthology will receive a copy of  its e-book edition.

Please post to all appropriate venues. Your time and help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks for your support of my project. And look forward to reading your new work (see 2014 anthology submission guidelines)

Chen-ou

Note: The 2013 Butterfly Dream Prize winner will be announced in April.

See the list of selected haiku




My Dear Fellow Poets:

NeverEnding Story was launched on the first day of 2013. Today is its first birthday.

Stats:

Pageviews yesterday: 278
Pageviews last month: 6,439
Pageviews last year: 64,602
The most read post: Dark Wings of Night: Seamus Heaney and His View of Haiku (posted on August 31; pageviews: 397; comments: 14)

And there are 95-epapers that regularly reprint NeverEnding Story's haiku and tanka, which are also posted on Twitter via @storyhaikutanka (NeverEnding Story's account -- following: 6; followers: 206) and re-tweeted by @ericcoliu (my account -- following: 6; followers: 1095).

For more information, see Hot News: NeverEnding Story's First Birthday, accessed at http://goo.gl/7vRw7w


Now, NeverEnding Story seeks haiku/ tanka submissions.

For more information. see 2014 One Man's Maple Moon Anthology: Call for Tanka Submissions, accessed at http://goo.gl/DWRomW , and 2014 Butterfly Dream Anthology: Call for Haiku Submissions, accessed at http://goo.gl/o3wOcJ


Many thanks for your support of my project.

May 2014 be great for both you and your writing.

Chen-ou

My Dear Fellow Poets:

This is the last call for haiku/tanka submissions. The accepted haiku/tanka will be translated into Chinese and posted on NeverEnding Story and Twitter (You are welcome to follow me on NeverEnding Story, or on Twitter at @storyhaikutanka [following 8, followers 163] or @ericcoliu [following 11, followers 997]). Of them, the best 66 haiku/tanka will be included in the anthology, which is scheduled to be published in April of 2014, and the best of the best haiku/tanka of 2013 will be rewarded $CAD 50 and the poet will be given a 3-page space to feature the best haiku/tanka of his/her choice. For those whose haiku/tanka are included in the anthology, each  will receive a copy of its e-book edition.

Deadline: December 1, 2013.

For more information about submissions, see Haiku Submission Guidelines and Tanka Submission Guidelines.

NeverEnding Story is one of the best places to get your work published.

Stats:  Pageviews yesterday 239; Pageviews last month 7,139.

And its haiku/tanka have been regularly reprinted in more than 60 e-papers, four of which are Japanese. For more information, see Hot News: Haiku/Tanka Reprinted in 60 E-Papers and its comment section.

Please help spread the word.

Many thanks.

Chen-ou Liu

My Dear THF Poets:

Launched on the first day of 2013, NeverEnding Story reached another milestone this week: its haiku/tanka have been regularly reprinted in 32 e-papers, three of which are Japanese (#tanka edited by 恋歌, The #tanka Daily edited by Paper.li community, and 週刊カタノさん edited by or kasumi numatani). For more information, see Hot News: Haiku/Tanka Reprinted in 30 E-Papers and its comment section.

Now, NeverEnding Story seeks haiku/ tanka submissions (especially well-crafted tanka). For more information, see Anthology Submissions . Please help spread the word.

Thank you for your support of my project.


Chen-ou Liu

My Dear Fellow Poets:

Yesterday, as promised, I launched a Chinese mirror website, 唱不完的詩歌: 中英雙語短詩網誌, putting NeverEnding Story on the literary map of "Cultural China," which has been promoted by Tu Weiming, Research Professor and Senior Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University, who authored "Cultural China: The Periphery as the Center," Daedalus, Vol. 134, No. 4, Fall, 2005, pp. 145-167.

And one more piece of good news. Poetry Daily, which is edited by TheJoyOTL, just became the fifth member in the list of e-papers that reprint the haiku and tanka published on NeverEnding Story. For more information, see Hot News: Haiku/Tanka Reprinted in Four E-Papers.


New Year's sunlight
on 唱不完的詩歌
the scent of roses
 
(note: 唱不完的詩歌 literally means reciting endless lines of poetry)

Chen-ou

Since its inception on Jan.1, 2013, NeverEnding Story has been well-received in the poetry communities it serves, and its haiku and tanka has been reprinted in four e-papers on a regular basis. For more info. see Hot News: Haiku/Tanka Reprinted in Four E-Papers


Chen-ou

Alan, thanks for sharing this exciting news.

And big congratulations to you.

I'm going to read your article on gendai haiku.

Chen-ou