Micropoetry
Micropoetry is a genre of poetic verse including tweetku (also known as twihaiku, twaiku, or twitter poetry) and captcha poetry, which is characterized by text generated through CAPTCHA anti-spamming software. The novelist
While short poems are most associated with the
Micropoetry often shares the quality of found poetry[citation needed], where poetic style is discovered in text not intended to be poetic. A famous early example of this was Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's Twitter feed, which comedian Conan O'Brien and actor William Shatner spoofed as poetry.[5]
Examples
In order to fit the most meaning into few characters, micropoetry often breaks traditional rules of grammar and lexicon[citation needed], as in this example:
evrywhr:i c mmnts crl'd back like lips
frm ancnt teeth;evrywhr:i C the bones,their shapes ntwined in2 the
flowrs of gd's infnite
spirogrph[6]
The form is also often characterized by spontaneous and rapid production and dissemination, as in the King's Place Twitter contest, judged by Yoko Ono. The winning poem from that May 2009 contest was written by Simon Brake:[7]
beneath the Morning Sun,
The city is painted gold,
People move like bees through honey[8]
See also
- Flarf poetry
- Microblogging
- Monostich
- Spoetry
References
- ^ Joanna Kavenna, "A trick of the eye" (review of Unrecounted: 33 Texts and 33 Etchings by WG Sebald and Jan Peter Tripp), The Telegraph, 22 August 2004.
- ^ Dave Bonta, "10 Questions on Poets & Technology" Archived 2010-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, June 29, 2010.
- ^ Dave Bonta, "Of words and birds, Tweety and otherwise", November 12, 2009.
- ^ tinywords.com, a daily haiku zine.
- ^ "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien - Hulu". Hulu.
- ^ Michael Fergusson, Twitter poetry, November 12, 2008
- ^ Bignell, Paul (16 May 2009). "While in the station, don't refrain from alliteration". Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-14. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ "Kings Place (@KingsPlace) - Twitter". twitter.com.