It has been a long time since I have written to you all. I hope each one of you have been well, safe and healthy. I want to apologize for all the delays on the publishing part and on the “add me as a writer” e-mails.

It has been a fantastic journey so far but due to multiple reasons, I am going to shut down this publication in the next couple of days. I know this comes as a shock to all of you writers and readers and to myself but I have thought about this decision for quite a long time and would be moving out of Medium as a platform.

This letter is an announcement that if you have been a writer with us, I want to thank you from the bottom of my poetic soul for making this community so beautiful with your writing, love and support. You can start pulling out your posts before I remove the publication altogether. I have also consulted with other peers that even if the publication is removed, the posts become self-published on your profile. I’d love to recommend The POM as a publication where you can move your existing posts as that publication is also a good reflection of mine. They will accept you wholeheartedly. You can check out the publication or get in touch with the star owner/admin of that publication Christina M. Ward for further support.

Once again, I’d like to thank each one of you for all the support, poems and this beautiful community. If you want to submit for my own website as a guest post some day, do get in touch with me any given time on my Twitter, Facebook or E-mail (fromthepoetsheart@gmail.com) and we will talk about the way forward. I am teary eyed as I type this, goodbyes are hard sometimes but necessary.

A big hug to all the writers, readers and this beautiful community. Lots of love. ❤

Ashwini Dodani — Founder, From the Poet’s Heart