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Anna:

Thanks for your hearty congratulations and for sharing your writing experiences.

I welcome your submission.

All the best,

Chen-ou

Updated March 8th:

NeverEnding Story appeared in Diogen (Jan.), Haiku Canada Review (7:1, Feb.), Ribbons (8:3, Winter), and many blogging sites

And it is praised for being an “ambitious blog of daily postings.” (Haiku Canada Review, p. 51)

Most importantly, launched on the first day of 2013, NeverEnding Story reached a milestone today: it had more than 10,000 pageviews (as of now 10,099), and its haiku/tanka have been regularly reprinted in 8 e-papers (FYR, Haiku News was launched on June 22nd, 2009; and it had 37,302 pageviews. For more information about e-papers, see Hot News: NeverEnding Story, Ambitious Blog of Daily Posting)

My Dear Fellow Poets:

I launched a new poetry blog on the first day of the year of the snake, 2013: NeverEnding Story, the first English-Chinese haiku and tanka blog, two of which sections are open for submissions (If everything goes well with my poetry blog, I'll publish Butterfly Dream 2013: Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and One Man’s Maple Moon 2013: Selected English-Chinese Bilingual Tanka in April, 2014; for more information, please see the "Anthology Submissions" webpage)

NeverEnding Story is established to fulfill my butterfly dream portrayed in the haibun, entitled “To Liv(e),” which was published in Frogpond (official journal of Haiku Society of America), 34:3, Fall 2011. I hope it can bring the beauty of English language Japanese short form poetry to Chinese readers around the world. For more information, see About NeverEnding Story

Since its inception, NeverEnding Story has been well-received in the poetry communities it serves, and its haiku and tanka have been regularly reprinted in the five e-papers (as of now, NeverEnding Story has 7494 pageviews)

Most importantly, on the 5th day (Feb. 14) of Chinese New Year Festival, 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.” For more information, see Hot News: 唱不完的詩歌, Chinese Mirror Website Launched.

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敬請賜稿

Chen-ou Liu (劉鎮歐), former English Garden moderator

劉鎮歐生於台北，台灣。曾任大專教師，書香園廣播節目主持人，雜誌編輯和影評人。２００２年夏天，移居加拿大；２００９年秋天，開始英詩創作。已出版三本英詩集，Ripples from a Splash: A Collection of Haiku Essays with Award-Winning Haiku，Broken/Breaking English: Selected Short Poems，Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize Winner of the 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest)；並獲得國際haiku 和 tanka比賽47個奬項。現任NeverEnding Story主編。歡迎參訪劉鎮歐的個人網站, Poetry in the Moment, 或讀他的2010 Simply Haiku 訪問 (with Robert D. Wilson) 和 2012 Lynx 訪問 (with Jane Reichhold)

My tanka:

the shining moon
that used to perch
on my childhood dreams
now hovers over
a rooming house

has received third place in the 2009 San Francisco International Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Rengay Competition sponsored by Haiku Poets of Northern California, and it will also be published in Mariposa.

The contest results have been posted at http://www.hpnc.org/

You can read the winning poems and judges’ comments there.

This award is my rebuttal to those criticisms made by Lake, 博弈, and others.

Many thanks to my readers!

Chen-ou Liu

Round III:

In the end, it's all about red flags!

These Children of Cultural Revolution.

This is Round Two!

I've deleted all of these little red flags I personally put beside the subject lines.

Good.

Below is my another published tanka:

XII

moths and street lights
long for each other --
people awake
work, eat, and sleep
as always

Thanks for your reply.

The whole issue has been “resolved.”

How could an honest man fight against a group of sophisticated schemers?

Good idea!

Note:

Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, Under the Red Flag features twelve stories which take place during China's Cultural Revolution--stories which display the earnestness and grandeur of human folly and, in a larger sense, form a moral history of a time and a place. Few months ago, Lake introduced our readers to its author’s lecture on immigrant literature, and he/she got a little flag. Now, under the new rule, nevermore!