Certified Listener Poet,
Cohort 11 Summer 2025
D. F. Tweney is a journalist, editor, poet, community builder, and publisher. He lives in the California Bay Area, where he helps tech companies tell their stories, takes care of his family, practices mindfulness in the Plum Village tradition of Vietnamese Zen, and swims in the Bay. He is also the founder of tinywords, a daily journal of haiku and micropoetry (online at tinywords.com). With over 3,000 subscribers, it’s the world’s largest journal of little poetry.