June 13, 2025 - To our contributors and to our readers and to those who have sent us work previously and have wondered whether we’re still here —— we are.

Each year since 2017 we’ve tried to build something sustainable, a home with a solid foundation —- where poets and writers and photographers and visual artists can submit their work and know that it will not only be received, but also read, viewed and responded to. What desire is more human than the desire to be seen. Throughout the life of Curlew —- apart from the run that we had from 2017 - 2022; over the last three years, our team’s collective effort at consistency and sustainability —- though genuine — have fallen short.

We could blame New York —- the city’s rising costs and the difficulty of living a sustainable and life there. We could blame the federal government and its leadership and the dwindling resources and opportunities that are available for literary organizations like our own. Or we could simply blame life —— the hazards and realities of being pulled in multiple directions and having endless commitments and responsibilities to fulfill —- professional, social, and otherwise.

And maybe in the past, at least speaking personally, I have. My life in New York was a beautiful and sweet and fierce challenge —- and from that challenge, together with a great deal of luck at having met just the right people at just the right time, this magazine was born. But what is a magazine apart from a collection of people —- human beings — who share an interest in wanting to use their creative gifts to make, shape, share, and enjoy their lives —- while also —- and often, challenging, calling into question, and taking to task the status quo — systemic, personal, collective, and otherwise.

I write all of this to say, to our contributors, to our readers, and to those who have sent us work previously and have wondered whether we’re still here — we are. And over the last year, we’ve been reading your submissions, keeping house, and building up structures that will support our sustainability.

The Curlew Daily returns next week. Issue No. 10 is out the first week of July.

- Jordan Myers, Founder