Tinywords

"Tinywords", founded in November 2000 by D. F. Tweney (aka Dylan Tweney), is an online English language haiku journal that publishes one haiku or senryu every weekday on its website. Haiku are a very short of Japanese poetry that are usually three lines, with 17 or fewer syllables. There are more than 10,000 visitors to the tinywords website each month.

Since 2000, tinywords has published more than 1,300 haiku by more than 250 different authors. Recognized haiku poets whose work has appeared on tinywords include Michael Dylan Welch, William J. Higginson, Hortensia Anderson, Jeffrey Winke, Randy Brooks, Stanford Forrester, Patricia Prime, Aurora Antonovic, and others.

There is also a free mailing list that sends each daily haiku to subscribers, either by email or mobile phone (including SMS phones and pagers, and smartphones). The daily haiku is also available as an RSS web feed.

As of February 2007, there were over 2,800 subscribers to the mailing list, making it the largest English-language haiku mailing list on the internet [David G. Lanoue's haiku-a-day mailing list for translations of Kobayashi Issa's haiku (from Xavier University of Louisiana) has around 1,000 subscribers [http://cat.xula.edu/issa/] ] . As a publisher of haiku, that also makes it the largest circulation English-language haiku publication [The Haiku Society of America, publishers of the haiku journal "Frogpond" had 832 members at the end of 2005 [http://www.hsa-haiku.org/about-hsa.htm] .] .

MS (Short message service) mobile phone subscriptions

Because haiku are so short, they can be messaged to cell phones and text pagers using SMS. The daily haiku from tinywords.com are designed to be under 100 characters to fit the limits of most SMS devices. Tinywords has [http://tinywords.com/about/mobile/ instructions] on how to subscribe for users of the major US cell phone carriers and SMS services. There is also a [http://tinywords.com/about/mobile/#sms table] that shows how to figure out your cell phone's email address based on its phone number.

martphones and PDA subscriptions

There is an Avantgo channel [http://tinywords.com/avantgo/index.php version] of the website that is specifically designed to display properly on internet-capable smartphones and PDAs.

There is also an I-mode [http://eirmode.com/tw/ version] of the website for NTT DoCoMo's I-mode service for mobile phones that is very popular in Japan and becoming popular in Europe.

Additional website features

;Haiku archivesOn the website visitors can check out previous daily haiku in the [http://tinywords.com/archive/ archives] , as well as post responses to a haiku or see what others have written on the haiku. From the archives you can search for particular poets, or a specific word (you can find all the [http://tinywords.com/archive/?q=spider spider haiku] that tinywords.com has featured, for example).

;Haiku postcardsFrom the website you can also email [http://tinywords.com/postcards/index.html haiku postcards] featuring haiga (a combination of artwork and haiku).

Notes

External links

* [http://tinywords.com the tinywords.com home page]
* [http://tinywords.com/feed/ tinywords RSS feed]
* [http://tinywords.com/feed/comments/ RSS feed of responses to haiku published on tinywords]
* [http://tinywords.com/avantgo/index.php Avantgo version of tinywords.com]
* [http://eirmode.com/tw/ I-mode version of tinywords.com]