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tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. Subs open. Web: https://www.tinywrenlit.com/

A tiny wren anthology, LIM[I]NAL, edited by Jennifer Browne & Dana Knott Cover art: A line of distant trees with round mountains behind them
Large quote marks graphic above a quote by William Blake: “In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.”
liminal [adj] “Of or pertaining to a threshold,” 1870, from Latin limen “threshold, cross-piece, sill” (see limit (n.)) + -al (1). Related: Liminality Online Etymology Dictionary
Cover Text: Lucky Number 13; poems Robert James Cross Image: art titled "Tenant" by Aron Wiesenfeld depicts a young man sitting on a mattress with his hands in his lap in a dilapidated room. The worn and partially erased image of an older man in a suit sits across from him.
Text: Script "Winter Solstice" and "tiny wren wishes you a magical Winter Solstice" Image: A brown winter wren sitting on a branch and framed by a sparse wreath of green leaves.
Pushcart Prize Noms “stable dreams” by Natalie Korman Issue 8 “Words as Homing Pigeons Fly” by Merril D. Smith Issue 8 “Archipelago” by Steph Cheng Earth: Poems of Presence and Possibility “Things My Body Has Held” by Mizuki Yamagen Issue 9 “Things I Can’t Translate” by Mizuki Yamagen Issue 9 “White Rabbit” by Elena Zhang The Moon, My Heart
A tarot card from the Major Arcana with a figure of a woman with flowing hair, sitting in the lotus position, and a starburst crown against a dark background. Text: Issue Ten: Major Arcana.
Cover: Black background with rectangle of green and white like a curtain. Text: Misunderstanding Silence: Tiny Poems By Eric Hadley
Floral background in the style of William Morris. Text: Best of the Net, tiny wren lit Memento Mori (8/27/2024) “Last Wish,” Karen Grace Soans “Stillborn,” Vic Nogay “Rupture,” Paul Allatson Golden Shovel (2/14/2025) “stable dreams,” Natalie Korman “Every Falling,” CX Wang “Words as Homing Pigeons Fly,” Merril D. Smith
The Moon, My Heart chapbook resting on the sculpture of a merged sun and moon face with a glass tealight in the background.
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.
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”
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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)
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