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  1. Sunday is Allen Ginsberg's birthday! poets.org/agins. Share your favorite line of his poetry with us: #GinsbergSays. 2:30 PM Jun 1st via web
  2. "Books With 140 Characters" @Crowdsourcing tinyurl.com/7cr6a6a. 1:34 PM Jun 1st via web
  3. "An Inventory of an Elaborate Pile of Garbage at 2nd Ave. and 2nd St. on June 1, 2000" by Brenda Coultas tinyurl.com/6p2hca6. 1:17 PM Jun 1st via web
  4. $5,000 poetry prize offers a chance to be published in the @walrusmagazine tinyurl.com/782wx4p. 12:38 PM Jun 1st via web
  5. "The bard of McSorley's: Geoffrey Bartholomew writes poems by day, pulls pints by night" tinyurl.com/bp4cuee. 11:29 AM Jun 1st via web
  6. Residents in Stark County, Ohio have been experiencing all types of activities inspired by Poe this spring... tinyurl.com/clzgm8d. 11:26 AM Jun 1st via web
  7. Thanks @Kcecelia. I hope you & @hush6 will introduce yourselves to the @POETSorg staff at #POFO12. We love meeting the social media-ites. 10:31 AM Jun 1st via web in reply to Kcecelia
  8. #PoemADay: "Essay on Adam" by Robert Bringhurst, from "Selected Poems", published by @CopperCanyonPrs (Feb. 2012) poemflow.com/1496. 10:04 AM Jun 1st via web
  9. The poetry of the present...is routinely full of self-display and personal confession..." -R. Bringhurst @TheEconomist tinyurl.com/68juevj. 9:48 AM Jun 1st via web
  10. "Music for the Tempest-Tost: A Tribute to Emma Lazarus" w/ Chamber Orchestra & soloist Marin Mazzie @MJHNews tinyurl.com/87cepue. 8:33 AM Jun 1st via web
  11. @MyAngelsDoll Rock on. 8:03 AM Jun 1st via web in reply to MyAngelsDoll
  12. Literary Literalism: Bold Bookcase Shaped Like Book Pages tinyurl.com/85tfp8s. 7:34 AM Jun 1st via web
  13. Need a gift for a poetry loving grad? Make them a member of @POETSorg & help us carry on. Check out what they'll get: poets.org/membership. 7:03 AM Jun 1st via web
  14. Happy June everyone! Who feels awesome today? 6:49 AM Jun 1st via web
  15. True story. RT @hush6 Yes - and Sharon Olds, Marie Ponsot & so many others. 6:44 AM Jun 1st via web in reply to hush6
  16. @hush6, He'll also be at Poets Forum 2012 Oct.18-20 poets.org/poetsforum. @Kcecelia @BumbleWard @simmertilldone @susanchamplin @mtechman 5:57 AM Jun 1st via web in reply to hush6
  17. In honor of his birthday, share your favorite line of poetry from Walt Whitman poets.org/wwhit. #WaltsWords 2:16 PM May 31st via web
  18. In need of a Father's Day gift for poetry loving dad? Visit poets.org/store to have your notebook, cuff links, etc. delivered in time. 1:22 PM May 31st via web
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