It’s
been a while since we last hosted a poetry party on Twitter, but it finally
happened. Nine Twitter poets participated, responding to prompts by @tspoetry
taken from Dave Malone’s (that’s @dzmalone in the vernacular of Twitter) most
recent poetry collection, O: Love Songs from the Ozarks. Our review
of the collection was
posted here at Tweetspeak Poetry back in February.
Tweetspeak
Poetry was born as a result of series of poetry parties on Twitter. For a while
we posted the resulting poems on my personal blog, but finally created a site
just for that purpose. Over time, the site grew, additional additional features
like Poetry at Work Day and Bring Your Poet to Work Day, literary tours, poetry
reviews, poetry prompts and more.
Like
every previous poetry party, the lines for poems developed on a number of
different levels, some people following the prompt and others responding to
each other; while some kept closely to the timing of prompt as others were more
considered in their responses. It’s great fun, but it takes some detective work
on the part of the editor (me) to identify which lines belong with which poem.
But I think you’ll like the resulting poems.
To
continue reading (and to see the poems), please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Illustration by jks Lola via Public
Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
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