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@dragonblogger – Making Random words into Poetry

Dennis Stevenson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:00:54 +0000

I found @dragonblogger while skipping around the twitterverse. Every day he accepts random words from twitter followers and magically transforms them (all) into a poem. Obviously the poem is bigger than 140 characters…

Check out the resulting poetry on his website at http://www.wandererthoughts.com/

If you want to participate, send a word to @dragonblogger.

This is a unique way of blending poetry and twitter. It earns a Twitter Laureate salute!

@cassandrabeth – making poetry on twitter

Dennis Stevenson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:58:19 +0000

In my twitter wanderings today I stumbled across @cassandrabeth. Her twitter stream is comingled with thoughts and poetry – lots of short forms such as Haiku. Her most recent is here:

Near lavender phlox/an oriole alighting:/the day’s turning point

I also liked this one…

Sudden sun; raindrops glisten on the cheeks of leaves.

Great tweets of beauty coming from Montreal!

Join the fun. Write your own poetry!

@DonnaMMiller Self Proclaimed Twitter Laureate

Dennis Stevenson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:43:42 +0000

Part of the new charter for Twitter Laureate is to highlight people who are using twitter for poetic ends. To kick off this new initiative, I found @DonnaMMiller. I found her searching for poets online.

That’s it. I’m tired of Maya Angelou getting all the credit for being wise. From now on, DonnaMMiller is the Twitter poet laureate.

@donnammiller

She follows up this tweet with a couple tongue-in-cheek tweets playing up on the wisdom she envies. Overall not a to of poetry, but certainly a great way to start off Twitter Laureate 2.0 with a bang.
If you know someone who uses twitter for poetry, let us know with a comment here or a dm to @twitlaureate and we’ll feature them here so we can all enjoy the read.