Twitter Poetry – New Genre?
A way of publishing your poetry to large number of people, to the audience that cares, this is the fundamental promise of twiHaiku, new online Twitter publishing application that leverage the core virtues of Internet and social networking.
Just listen to a few tweets from the followers who are discovering that poetry is very much alive on the web and now it is living in ways that were never possible or existed before the creation of Twitter and twiHaiku:
“30 seconds in and I already have a huge crush on @twihaiku …. ”
@saponista“All poets should follow @twihaiku !”
@poet_laureate“@twihaiku – Oh that sounds fantastic !!!”
@NoBitterLemons
TwiHaiku official website presents an easy to use online application that aims to collect and publish quality original short poetry, which moderated selection of the best twiHaiku poems is available at TwiHaiku Twitter account page. It is a pure poetry channel, without an usual Twitter noise, for all poetry lovers to follow, read, discuss, rate, search and contribute to the best collection of the short verse poetry online.
@twihaiku page
Favorite new place to rage
Where I play a Sage.Twihaiku by @rekouche
Social media marriage made in electronic heaven
Just in case you did not know, Twitter become one of the, if not the single most important Web 2.0 medium in the world. More people are joining this micro-blogging service everyday, discovering twitter poetry, and many different forms it is taking on.
Status message-inspired nature of Twitter (brief text messages uploaded to a web site that others subscribe to, follow and read) is perfect for scripting concise poetry such as haiku, short or light verses poetry, because you are limited to 140 characters (to fit in a standard SMS message). This means you’re limited to around 5 letters per syllable, which should be plenty to create a masterpiece.
Beautiful and sad
Seemingly without purpose
Little flightless bird.TwiHaiku about animals by @madmadamimm
TwiHaiku – Twitter hijacked all for poetry!
Poems that can fit inside 140 characters – Twitter Poetry – Very 21st century! We care about poetry precisely because it exists outside this frenetic word-space. In a world echoing with tweets and stats and sound bytes, our need for poetry has never been greater.
TwiHaiku is poetry for today and our fast-paced lifestyles. Starting from the simple Twitter question: “What are you doing?”, reader and the writer within are enticed to get involved, to share with the community their sincere attitude about world that surrounds us, with the perception of what is occurring at the moment, concisely and without embellishment.
I took to the jail
Flowers grew between the bars
Beauty set me freeTwiHaiku about life by @JimCrowePoet
Giving a new meaning to the poetry in cyberspace, TwiHaiku website offers friendly collaborative interface that significantly extends the obscure list of Twitter interacting options. In addition to the simple poetry submission, similar to the other social networking services like Digg, StumbleUpon or Facebook, twiHaiku users may easily vote, bookmark, search or discuss their favorite poems, directly influencing and refining the content of the Twitter page.
This way, only the top quality content is presented to the followers without an frequently emphasized drawback of ordinary Twitter accounts that incorporate a lot of not relevant and usually meaningless content (like the owners daily routine preferences)
New poetry form for the 21th century
The destiny of TwiHaiku project is now entirely in hands of the online community and its vast creative potential demonstrated so many times in recent years. If successful, this project may mark a new chapter in the history of modern poetry, and be the roll-model for many similar ventures waiting to reshape the way we are consuming the poetry today.
You may follow twiHaiku and contribute to its daily poetry sessions on its official webpage at www.twiHaiku.com.
Tags: haiku, Press Release, short poetry, short verses, twihaiku, twitter, twitter haiku, twitter poetry
When Twitter first started up I did not see what was so great about it. I did not care to know what most people are doing all day long. But little creative things like making poetry has made this a great format.
What we should be asking is: “How does this affect the form?”. I’m all for new things, but how does Haiku remediated onto Web 2.0 change it as an art form? As a reader, do we find ourselves any different by reading it on a screen with hyperlinks versus the printed page?
I better stop b4 I go total-McLuhan!
This Haiku site seems like a passing thing, to me.
I tweet a line or two on Twitter now than then. Nothing as difficult as haiku though Twitter seems made for that.
Interesting article about TwiHaiku. I should say that you give good information for other.
It appears that this is one of the better posts I have read in the past few weeks. Twitter rocks!
That’s great, poetry on Twitter. Twitter has had a lot of success recently, it’s nice to see how creative the users are and how useful the posts can actually be.
My daughter is in college and studying in writing and even her professor has brought this up. The internet is changing the way we do old things and bringing them to more and more people. I kind of like the art form myself.
It would be interesting to see what people could come up with in 140 characters. It would bring new meaning to short stories.
Most people before regarded twitter as a simple for of mass messaging to followers and thats about it. Until it’s used in marketing, a lot of people are utilizing its advantage and eventually became the most powerful social media today because of the great things it can do aside from its huge userbase.
I never found any good use for twitter, but this looks interesting.. I have a few short poems that I want to publish