This bird will fly again

Apparently Twitter was down for a while today. Since Twitter doesn't impact my life at all -- I don't "tweet" nor do I follow any "tweeters" (sorry, Laura) -- I had no idea. But Seth Colter Walls, The Awl's "Assistant Chief Poetry Parodist," did. And it inspired him to write the poem "A Kaddish for Twitter." Go there and read it. Not to disparage his work, but I think the great Twitter has yet to be written. But it will come. And we will weep.

"Poetry From Iran, One Tweet At A Time" on NPR

Something I am not sure any poet would want to hear said about them: "His Tweets range from the mundane to the spiritual."

But that's what NPR says about Parham Baghestani. Naturally he is from Iran, because it is apparently impossible to do a news story today about Iran without mentioning Twitter. God help us.

Detroit Twitter poetry

PoeTweet is a terrible name, but it sounds like a pretty cool concept. Poets collaborating line by line to write about Detroit. Not surprisingly the source is M.L. Liebler and the Scarab Club, Detroit's poetic forces of nature.