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& Matt Rohrer: "I wash the dishes more than I write poems" via @
about 22 hours ago
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"I mentioned in a recent poem a tip I gave a hairdresser, but I think I lied about how much the tip was" -Wayne Koestenbaum on poetic taboos
about 22 hours ago
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"And what is so rare as a day in June? / Then, if ever, come perfect days." -James Russell Lowell, I'm feeling you today! !
about 22 hours ago
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"Among the books of my library (I am seeing them now) / There are some that will never be read" -Borges trans @ via @
2:03 PM May 31st
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Multiple verse-writing sources also confirmed vapors, milky white vapors of shallow breath from a child's lips@TheOnion
9:30 AM May 31st
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"—gurgling, gurgling ceaselessly—meaning, saying something, of course (if one could only translate it)—" To the Spring & Brook &to you, Walt
8:29 AM May 31st
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"SO, still sauntering on, to the spring under the willows—musical as soft clinking glasses—pouring a sizeable stream, thick as my neck"
8:27 AM May 31st
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@ writes smart things re:horror flicks & his poem "I am a Wall in a House and I have a Duty to Remain Erect"
7:29 AM May 31st
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"fragmentation... a heightened connection to the text...since they constantly had to redefine what they were observing"
7:13 AM May 31st
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...a moment of apotheosis in Parisian cultural life, when so many geniuses were ‘in a lookabout mode’ reenacted @:
9:40 AM May 30th
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Oh, by the way: Christopher Marlowe was stabbed in the eye in a pub on this day in 1593.
9:18 AM May 30th
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That last tweet was from an interview with Tracy K. Smith @. Read on!:
7:53 AM May 30th
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"believing in language–in the ability of words to bring even an imagined reality into being–is a big part of what it means to write poetry"
7:52 AM May 30th
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"the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right." Happy Birthday Ralph Waldo Emerson, born this day in olde 1803!
8:13 AM May 25th
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"The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
8:12 AM May 25th
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"It was Brodsky, I think, who said that poetry and politics have only two things in common, letter p and letter o"
10:01 AM May 24th
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"–these small shapes! I would get lost counting them. Who first thought of it? How did he describe it to the others?" -Anne Carson (on rain)
8:19 AM May 24th
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"It was blacker than olives the night I left. As I ran past the palaces, oddly joyful, it began to rain. What a notion it is, after all–"
8:18 AM May 24th
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It Is a Spring Afternoon–"Because of this / the trees turn in their trenches / and hold up little rain cups / by their slender fingers"
8:27 AM May 23rd
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Headed up to @ to celebrate Monet's Garden, French Symbolist poets, and springtime with the Poetry Society Spring Benefit, tonight!
8:24 AM May 23rd
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- Name Poetry Society
- Location New York City
- Web http://poetrysoci...
- Bio Poetry, I too, like it | The nation's oldest poetry non-profit. | Elsbeth Pancrazi, Poetry Society's Development Director, does the tweeting.
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