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david wheatley
nemoloris
One notable aspecft of Anne Stevenson’s Collected is that it explodes any sense of chronology. Poems are mixed across decades with no indication of where they come from. Short thread.
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Dr Gillian Kenny
medievalgill
One of the important roles for the wife of a Gaelic chieftain in medieval Ireland was to act as a patron of poets. Women lavished hospitality on poets to ensure
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suninspIendour
the academy of american poets has a poem-a-day mail subscription, and it's led me to some real jewels! gonna be updating this thread every once in a while with my
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Keith "the mixed metaphor" S. Wilson
robottomulatto
i don't want to write too much about the poem because the thing that happens over and over is that we devote a ton of intellectual labor into breaking down
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heather hughes
birdmaddgirl
so, poets, are we ready to dismantle the contest as the primary publishing model yet? reliance on the contest model: absolves publishers of editorial and sales responsibilities; creates a pay-to-play
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And Other Tweets
andothertweets
Question: if you were to start a #poetry list for us, (and let's say it'd have our usual mix of English-language & translated work), which poets in #translation would you
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Uberboyo
uberboyo
Those "reviving the West" must study the way the Irish poets crafted the Irish identity in the 19th CenturyThis Identity carried WELL past our Revolution.Today being Irish has a high
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Peterborough Currents
PTBO_Currents
It's National Poetry Month — for a few more days, at least — and there's lots going on locally! (Thread) @ECThreePtbo @CanadianPoets Have you noticed these posters around downtown? With
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Stephen Ira
supermattachine
hey, I'm really deep down a rabbit hole right now & I'd like a reality check. for you, what is "confessional poetry," and do you think of this way of
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Karl Knights
Inadarkwood
One of the things that annoys me about poetry award season is that so many poets were allowed to develop and flourish thanks to Arvon courses, the Complete Works, the
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Carrie Etter
Carrie_Etter
Poets, I have a lovely student who wants to know how you deal with/have dealt with feelings of imposter syndrome and learn to have faith in your work. I thought
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Zohar Atkins
ZoharAtkins
Are you a poet who writes about climate change, or someone who does? As She Rises, a podcast, produced by @wmnmedia is looking for poets whose writing focuses on the
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Yukon Cor-needlessness
McArthurMooney
I had a really good time jurying for @CanadianPoets this year with @KikiFolle & @adebe_ and wanted to suggest everyone go find and read these twelve longlisted debuts.http://poets.ca/2019/04/01/2019-book-awards-longlist-announcement/ I would
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John Manuel Arias
johnmanuelarias
A poet has never fucked me, so the answer is A.https://twitter.com/catrachxs/status/1247280961101783040 honestly, poets are what you get when you mix ego & depression---where in that equation does one find good
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Fran Wilde
fran_wilde
So last night, I dreamed @MichaelSwanwick & @gregory_frost and I were trying to skip out of a reading. Before I could leave, my MFA advisor Larry Levis & my UVA
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Rachel
tunesandtales
April is National Poetry Month. I'm gonna share a poem a day all month. Here's yesterday's. Today's is threaded.https://twitter.com/tunesandtales/status/1245557755735392257 "The Orange" by Wendy Cope.https://gladdestthing.co
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