What are the best poetry Twitter accounts to follow?

September 15, 2013 8:41 PM

I feel certain that there must be poets who tweet their poetry. Please tell me if you know of any that are quality. Also acceptable would be accounts of people who tweet lines of poetry from various poets.

To elaborate on what I'm looking for, my favorite poets are WB Yeats, Billy Collins, Galway Kinnell. I also can enjoy Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Dickey. I have a soft spot for Edna St. Vincent Millay. I'm willing to read poets I've never heard of as long as they are along these lines. Thanks.

posted by treehorn+bunny to Writing & Language (7 answers total)

Emily Dickinson updates very regularly with lines from her poems.

Also, you might like this Independent article: "Twihaiku? Micropoetry? The rise of Twitter poetry." It mentions several award-winning poets who have composed poems on Twitter.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:01 PM on September 15, 2013

I enjoy NerudaLove, which tweets Pablo Neruda in English translation. His love poems, specifically.
posted by penguin pie at 12:48 AM on September 16, 2013

I'm a big fan of Google Poetics. Here's a particularly good recent tweet:

and the snakes start to sing
and then there were none
and the mountains echoed
and the world was gone

There's a website too.
posted by ZipRibbons at 1:05 AM on September 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

@larkinquotes
posted by mani at 2:13 AM on September 16, 2013

Ryoichi Wago is currently the most famous Japanese poet doing this.
posted by misozaki at 6:17 AM on September 16, 2013

Here are some people whose twitter accounts are mostly small poems. They are mostly associated with "Weird Twitter" or "Alt-lit". Perhaps this wasn't what you were asking for? Perhaps you didn't realize this was what you were asking for...

@Microdream
@apollilaire
@heikojulien
@dvoted_hubsand
@ActualPerson084
@postcrunk
@georgelazenby
@HypnagogicTales
@Bad_Acid_
@timescanner
@dogsdoingthings
posted by Potomac Avenue at 7:31 AM on September 16, 2013 [1 favorite]

Apologies if these are too far removed from your tastes, but here are poets I like & follow on twitter:

@alexdimitrov
@EnterDuration
@TriciaLockwood
posted by univac at 9:20 AM on September 16, 2013