Dear Readers, Here is my Editor’s Note. I suppose I am to say something smart-sounding about poetry and craft. I am honored to have so many of you entrust us with your work, so the least I can do is appear well-versed in poetry and an astute student of wonder. Do editors write about William […]

Dear Readers, It is spring again, and the world is making itself new. In New England, the snow is starting to melt, the days are getting longer once more. The birds at the feeder have turned from cardinals to nuthatches. The world is turning in that great cycle. It feels fitting that this issue of […]

Dear Readers, New Englanders believe in seasons—if there’s one thing I’ve learned since I’ve moved here. I heard someone say “Grapefruit is my favorite winter fruit,” and I was confused by that at first. I mean, fruit is fruit. You can get grapefruit any time you like. But I’m starting to get it. At the […]

Dear Readers, Something strange has happened. Almost 500 people decided to submit to Thimble. That means 500 people learned about us. That means 500 people wanted us for a home—isn’t that something? There is lots to say about this fabulous issue, but what I really want to talk about is a poem not in the […]

Dear Readers, 6.1 is our 21st issue. Can you believe it? I think this may also be our longest issue. Every time I would accept a new piece, I would think to myself, Ah, but I’m giving myself more work. But then I would also immediately think, How could I not? Robert Creeley had an […]

Dear Readers, At the end of 2022, I was listening to a lot of Kimya Dawson, specifically the song “Happy Home (Keep on Writing)” from her “Alphabutt” album, which is hilarious and weird and aimed at children. But the lyrics to this one floored me. At the start, Dawson sings about when they were a […]

Dear Readers, By the time you are reading this, I will have already moved across the country to New England. But I have not done so yet. Here are some things I might say about my new digs: It’s so nice having four, distinct seasons. I love not being in 90-degree weather in fall. New […]

At long last, it is fall, the very best of seasons, even in balmy Texas. The trees don’t really do the fall thing, the weather is disappointing, and pumpkin spice does get old. But one can still choose to indulge in a pleasant melancholy if one chooses to. And for me, fall means one thing: […]

Dear Friends, It’s always a blessing to overhear a conversation and have it stick in your brain a while. A middle-aged dad sighed. His two children, a boy and a girl in school uniforms, were scampering about the produce section at Kroger’s where I was picking up apples. The father said loudly, I love you, […]

Dear Friends, A month or two ago, I needed the state inspection done for my car. I decided to go to the combination state inspection / coffeehouse place up the street. Two birds, one stone. As I am waiting with my latte for the inspection to be done, I observe two small children coloring under […]