The Lit Pub on Twittering Poets

The Lit Pub has a nice little piece on authors who tweet. The limited form is especially suited for poets, observes writer Tiffany Gibert. "As for the metalsmith," she writes, "the work becomes more difficult and more intricate with smaller objects." She goes on:

The writers I love tweet about nonsense. They tweet because it’s amusing. They tweet stories and dreams and observations that succinctly demonstrate why they write, that they must. They tweet shards of wisdom so sharp that I feel the dullness of my own tweets, and I hope that my RTs do not debase their gracefully worded morsels.

Gibert's favorites include poet D.A. Powell (sample tweet: "I constantly doubt my vocation, even though I’m not a young nun") and Arda Collins, who recently crafted this one: "Vespers at Target." Gibert is taken:

What would Vespers at Target be like, I wonder — the combination of America’s religious past and consumerist future? In only 18 characters, Collins conjures a wholly original scene that teems with images and sounds embedded in the readers’ memories, or, at least, in their imaginings of Target and vespers. I can see the choir in front of the lawn furniture, can smell the glowing scented candles.

Read more here.