Muses and Metaphor 2012
NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin is looking for your poetic tweets! Go to twitter and tweet us your original poetry using #tmmpoetry. If your poem is chosen, we will help you record it and we will broadcast the poetic tweets in April as part of National Poetry Month. Sweet right?
April is Nat’l Poetry Mo. We combine two of our passions - social media & poetry. Tweet ORIGINAL poems. We’ll air our favorites. #TMMPoetry- And to help us curate our twitter poetry series, we welcome back poet Holly Bass @hollybassdc. She is a writer and performer here in Washington, D-C. Holly will help us choose some of our favorite tweets to feature on the program. We thought it would be fun though to give you a sense of the kinds of tweets that are coming our way.
#TMMPoetry I am the dead man on the field; I am/ the bird, the beast, the god, the groom, the bride./ I am a hypocrite, a metaphor, a myth.
Into clouds currents/that slip past the floating sun/cast the fly of your heart./Rest,as you wait for blessings/to take the bait. #tmmpoetry- It's also fun to see your retweets
RT @wordblender: my closed eyes / nodding existence / flecks of an iris / in bloomed darkness #tmmpoetry
RT @wordblender: if my blanket were stars / I'd tuck myself in / the sweep of the sea / and count / undeniable sheep #5poem #tmmpoetry- Our poetry series will begin airing on NPR's Tell Me More on April 3rd. As part of the first segment, we will play tweets from students at Hart Middle School in Washington D.C. The D.C. Creative Writing Workshop has a program at the school and Michel Martin had interviewed Senior Program Director Alan King @aking020881 earlier this Fall. We asked Alan King if he would work with the school and ask the students to tweet poems for our series and he said YES! Here first is Alan King's poem...
there you are/ as if the world/ weren't a ball of yarn/ unraveling in the hands/ of toddlers./ You with a Sufi's glow... #TMMPOETRY- And here are tweets by his students
- Daisha: "A is the darkness./...E you hear a trumpet/...I you and this unknown man or woman/ U you are afraid to move" #TMMPoetry
- TyJuan: "My eyes are my trademark/... I get them from staring at the sky,/ but the sun ruins my memory./... I look up anyway" #TMMPoetry
- Daisha: "...it is a new day/ my heart, esophagus, brain come to be joyful/... because it is spring/ I don't have to wear a coat" #TMMPoetry
- TyJuan: "America looks bad, but it's the people/ who make it crazy;/...their brains have gone lazy/ They watch too much TV" #TMMPoetry
- Some other poetic tweets we are considering!
hurry, hurry to the rooftop,/ see the sunset/ swirling,/ a cosmic sail/ unfurling,/ your voyage/ to the Soul/ begins today! #tmmpoetry
Solitude. A lie I've been telling. Companionless predator, moving in the dark. Lonely, tired man.. growing older as dawn breaks. #tmmpoetry
#tmmpoetry The choir sings Monteverdi, no accompaniment. The weakest soprano clings to a bass for support, wrapped around his vibrato.- Cool to see member station WDET in Detroit tweeting about our series!
April is National Poetry Month & @TellMeMoreNPR will be airing poems tweeted w/ the #tmmpoetry hashtag all month long. Give it a try!- These are some other poetic tweets our Curator Holly Bass is considering
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Shadows darken his once-rosebud lips. Eyes glisten like monsoon ponds. Today, son, don’t let your hoodie hide your lovely curls. #TMMpoetry
on the old webbed lawn chair/with sun tea/reading novel after novel/until the sun drops like a penny into the slit of the earth #TMMpoetry- This is getting really exciting! We launch Muses and Metaphor tomorrow on NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin!!
Sing, Muse, of this Moleskine notebook - whose smooth path draws a line from my heart to my pen. #tmmpoetry
