Speaking of character-limited prose, two Twittery things I’m enjoying: Poetry magazine’s Twitter feed washes up some beautiful, oddly satisfying pieces of poetry flotsam (all of which are more successful metaphorically than I’m being here) and Baby Trotsky, a “Twitterary magazine” that’s new but off to an interesting start.
A while back, Lowell* asked me if people write poems on Twitter, and we postulated the emergence of a new poetic form that would resemble a 140-character haiku: the Twitterku. It’s nice to see this same idea cropping up elsewhere. My most recent favorite arrived via Rebecca Skloot‘s feed: “Book tour haiku: O! To step off a plane / And see your name lovingly / Misspelled on a sign!”
* He’s anti-Twitter, pro-cuneiform.
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