It wasn't really red...
> They're replacing the wheelbarrow piece in monopoly, what is William Carlos Williams going to use now? — BZILLA (@bzi11a) March 27, 2017 [https://twitter.com/bzi11a/status/846472782057758720]…
When You Are Old
> W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem "When You Are Old" Gets Adapted Into a Beautiful Short Film https://t.co/5xb1ALcbfY pic.twitter.com/zTL3jmp94B [https://t.co/zTL3jmp94B] — Open Culture (@openculture) March 3, 2017 [https://twitter.com/openculture/status/837743383762386945]…
Poetry, please
> #PSA [https://twitter.com/hashtag/PSA?src=hash] via @thebookmania [https://twitter.com/thebookmania] pic.twitter.com/pI8hIlZ87o [https://t.co/pI8hIlZ87o] — Sara (@meteolist) January 18, 2017 [https://twitter.com/meteolist/status/821751913993609216]…
Gandhi and Buber on the same page
I was startled to discover a thought of Gandhi last night that pairs very well with a poem of Martin Buber. I had to do a web search to find the poem, which I copied into an old notebook when I first read it some years ago. The idea they…
Poemball
> The Poemball machine - all it takes is a quarter to add a burst of poetry into a day https://t.co/8WQSPYUiDS — The Poetry Society (@PoetrySociety) November 4, 2016 [https://twitter.com/PoetrySociety/status/794507919098318848] This reminds me of some other ideas—the Call Me Ishmael [https://twitter.…
An Ash Tree was Felled
An ash tree I planted in my yard more than thirty years ago was felled today, victim of the emerald ash borer [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer]. The tree didn't cost me anything, just the effort of walking a few hundred yards and wheeling…
Langston Hughes and Legacy
> Our words live on long after we are gone. Langston Hughes's poem "I, Too"--published in 1926--still speaks to us in 2016. https://t.co/nvakK7p6uG — Poetry In America (@PoetryInAmerica) September 23, 2016 [https://twitter.com/PoetryInAmerica/status/779297524460978177] The die-three-times story [http://mikeschultz.tumblr.…
Ouch!
> ...though we sang in our (social media) chains like the sea. https://t.co/RHQ8XDyebH — Tim Carman (@timcarman) April 24, 2015 [https://twitter.com/timcarman/status/591640108064899072] Count me emphatically in the 6.7% who have read poetry in the last 12 months. And it's not just…