Lit Drift explores the future of poetry in our digital age.
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It used to be that modern meant free verse, yet we’re surrounded by programs like Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. These sites encourage piecemeal sound bites, snippets of our lives, slices of our day. So why not use these platforms to express our creativity? Tons of writers are already doing it.
Case in point: Twitter user arjunbasu (found on our list of microfiction Twitterers: @litdrift/microfiction) recently tweeted, “An hour after the argument, he was at her apartment, flowers in hand. I’m not trying to impress you, he said. But she didn’t mind if he did.” In so few words, arjunbasu communicated the state of an ailing relationship shot through with a narrow tunnel of hope. Though technically placed under the category of microfiction, couldn’t his statement be poetry as well?
Couldn’t we think of a Twitter poem as a sort of haiku? The number of syllables per line defines a haiku and Twitter limits “tweets” to 140 characters or less. Could I create something with so few words that I might consider calling a poem?
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