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Add to your to do list. Issue 9: Inventory is live!

www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-9

A silvery full moon against a background of purple and gray skies and cherry blossoms in the foreground. Text: The Moon, My Heart; poems; Elene Zhang.

Cover reveal for Elena Zhang's tiny chapbook "The Moon, My Heart" with cover art by Aleah Dye. Coming soon to the tiny wren shop.

Final call for tiny inventory poems!

Re-opening: tiny wren lit tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. #amwriting

tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. #amwriting

Send us your tiny inventory/list poems! And, while you're at it, see what you have to submit to these other fine publications. (with love to @chillsubs.bsky.social )

A Litany I remember him falling beside me, the dark stain already seeping across his parka hood. I remember screaming and running the half mile to our house. I remember hiding in my room. I remember that it wa...

Gregory Orr's poem "A Litany" powerfully employs listing + repetition as poetic devices to capture a haunting + tragic moment from his childhood.

A Litany poets.org/poem/litany

We're accepting tiny inventory/list poems throughout May.

Issue 9 submissions are now open with focus on inventory poetry. Start making those lists! You have all of May!

www.tinywrenlit.com/submit

Love this picture and love your poem!

Image: Wren on a branch Text: Top Ten Finalists tiny wren's tiny chaps contest D.W. Baker, “Digging Someone Else’s Grave” Sam Calhoun, “Apparitions” Robert James Cross, “Lucky Number 13” Eric Hadley, “Misunderstanding Silence” Laurie Koensgen, “when light breaks clean” Kelli Lage, “Reservoir Reverie” Sasha Weiss, “pain clinic party” Ashley White, “Ten Tiny Poems for One Giant Loss” A.R. Williams, “Between Worlds and Woods” Elena Zhang, “The Moon, My Heart”

Our top 10 finalists for tiny wren's micro-chapbook contest. Love to everyone who shared their wee poems. So much brilliance!

Grateful to have your poem as part of the anthology!

My left hand holding a copy of the Earth anthology in front of a green bush with yellow flowers.

The Earth anthology open to the page with my poem, titled 'Archipelago': Each week a new habitat forms; in our hands everything catastrophic is made small and removed, a future turned present. And so we continue to become islands of our own making.

Thrilled to have a poem in this anthology by @tinywrenlit.bsky.social 💞 (My first published poem!)

My thanks to the editors, and it's lovely to be among such talented poets! 🥹

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Every Falling after "One Heart" by Li Young Lee The last time we met here even the wind was a poet, your hair flying like tossed branches beneath steel clouds. This is how heartbreak is born: love is extracted out of memory, longing out of nothing We apple to earth in every ending after "A Sweetening All Around Me as it Falls" by Jane Hirschfield October sun scented of new apples picked at their peak. I thought love was simply that black seed in earth, had only one purpose—growing — and only one end— falling.

Manuscript responses are forthcoming. In the meantime, enjoy these tiny golden shovels by CX Wang.

Thanks for the love!🪺

Cover image: “Flower study” by John Jessop Hardwick, 1866. Text above image: EARTH: Poems of Presence and Possibility. Text below image: Edited by Dana J. Graef & Dana Knott

Cover reveal for our 3rd print anthology "Earth: Poems of Presence and Possibility," landing soon in the tiny wren shop.

Nearing Winter after "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden Tell the trees to stop their uncrowning. All I hear in the wind is the curlew, set to ticking clocks.

Lovely golden shovel poem by Leusa Lloyd for a cold winter day.

well another rejection today but I totally missed my own poem coming out with @tinywrenlit.bsky.social. a golden shovel that I am really proud of and I am so glad they chose for this issue of all golden shovels!!

www.tinywrenlit.com/8/stable-dre...

Cover of tiny wren lit, issue 8.1, golden shovel, printable zine. Top of image has a half circle with dark blue, orange, and yellow stripes. Beneath, three crescents from yellow, dark blue, and orange.

Issue 8, our golden shovel issue, is now live: www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-8

Love and appreciation to our wrenster poets, submitters, and readers.

image: head of a winter wren (troglodytes hiemalis) Text: tiny wren publishing / call for tiny chapbooks /submissions open jan. 31 / visit our Submit page for more details

Get your tiny poems together. Submission period for tiny chapbook manuscripts opens on Jan. 31.

Lined paper torn from notebook taped to a wall. Note lists the nominated poets and their poems: “Introduction” by Elizabeth Anne Schwartz (from Nine Stage of Coming Out/Feb. 2024) “She Strikes the Match” by Arlene Geller (Issue 6/Mar. 2024) “What If—” by Dana Graef (from Vanishing/Apr. 2024) “Miscarriage” by Melissa Joplin Higley (Issue 7/Aug. 2024) “Teeth” by Thom Schramm (Issue 7/Aug. 2024) “All Poems Are About Death” by Paul Hostovsky (Issue 7/Aug. 2024)

Excited to share the wrensters we nominated for the Pushcart.

Congrats to wrenster @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social!

Foreground: Three chapbooks published by tiny wren (under fire | under water; Nine Stages of Coming Out; and Peninsula Middleground: A folkart carving of a sleeping cat on a book Background: Painting of a cat sitting on a table and next to a terracotta pot of flowers; behind the cat, turquoise blue building with a red roof

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Magazine Stand :: tiny wren lit - Issue 7 Literary magazines offer readers the newest in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, and comics. Read more at NewPages.com!

Allow us to introduce ourselves. Founded in Nov. 2021, tiny wren lit showcases micro-poetry online with issues often focused on a specific theme. We also print lovely chapbooks + anthologies.

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