So Much for That Hiatus

Gerald So has had second thoughts about closing down his “crime poetry weekly,” The Five-Two, as he did in September 2023.

Just a few days ago, he announced suddenly that he is again in the market for new material. “The Five-Two’s original twelve-year run,” he wrote, “ended because submissions dried up, perhaps because I left Twitter soon after Elon Musk bought it. The amount of wrongdoing since Donald Trump retook the U.S. presidency has me beyond consolation and thinking of rebooting the site.”

So added that the first new deadline for submissions is Monday, March 24. “Read the full guidelines,” he said, “and join me on Bluesky, Mastodon, and/or YouTube to show your support. If I accept enough poems, The Five-Two will relaunch Monday, April 7, 2025, as part of National Poetry Month.” In a follow-up post, So also invited participation in an April blog tour called The Cruelest Month, during which both poets and non-poets will comment on “past Five-Two poems or other crime-themed poems I can cross-reference.”

I look forward to seeing The Five-Two up and running once more.