#POEM

Mx. Faylita Hicks

FaylitaHicks

I hate subtweets—but I want young poets to know that during this pandemic, a lot of editors are having a rough time. I got COVID and then two of my

Laura♎🎲

LauraMeetWorld

A thread: You want to know what a #WayHaught wedding looks like? I asked @KatBarrell to play a game of MASH: WayHaught Wedding Edition with me. #WynonnaEarp The categories are

Dr. Siân Griffiths

BorrowedHorses

In an early grad school poetry workshop, a friend of mine turned in a poem in which she described a homeless person, and her professor, Phillip Levine, irate, told her

Lică Vlahul

Iulian68

Michael the Brave one of the 4 quintessential heroes of Romanian Middle Ages had been also a hero of neoGreek early literature. 1st work dedicated to him was an epic

Sean Raymond

sraymond_astro

David Nesvorny's and my new review is out: "Origin and dynamical evolution of the asteroid belt". It will be published in a book on Ceres and Vesta.Let me go through

Robert McNees

mcnees

“Dear Radioactive Ladies and Gentlemen”Wolfgang Pauli sent a letter to a group of nuclear physicists #OTD in 1930, proposing a new and hard-to-detect particle to explain energy that went missing

Kate Clanchy

KateClanchy1

When the first colonial boats landed in the Americas, the captains sent the ship’s boys, aged about 9, to winter with the local people. This was so they’d come back

💡 Scott | The Ten Ideas Practitioner

ttipractitioner

Ten ways to get unstuck when writing.//A Thread// 1. Ask questions.Think about what the reader would ask after reading what you've already done.Answer those questions. 2. Write a story about

Damien Donnelly

deuxiemepeau

I read that #EavanBoland won the #CostaPoetryPrize posthumous today & here is a poem I wrote after finding her book in the beautiful library in #Dunshaughlin early last year. It’s

Bo Winegard

EPoe187

1. Thread. Poetry is sublime and worthy of study! Here, I want to examine W. H. Auden's wonderful poem, "Musée des Beaux Arts," which uses paintings from a museum of

Maria Dahvana Headley

MARIADAHVANA

I’ve reached the point in the week where I’m arguing with strangers in comment sections about their insistence that Beowulf is a sacred text that cannot be adapted or performed

Andrew C. Hébert

andrewhebert86

Why read?C.S. Lewis:"We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves...Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realize the

Hannah Hodgson ♿️🌈

HodgsonWrites

My GP has phoned three times trying to make me sign a DNR due to covid because I "wouldn't be a priority" Health is a privilege. Use it. You'll lose

Royal Society of Literature

RSLiterature

It's half term! For today's #Take5, we have put together a list of creative writing activities for the kids to get involved in this week. Take a look through...5 CREATIVE

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

1/25 A central part of my research is guided by poetry and by its incredible importance for historical study. Unfortunately, some historians have abused poetry, ransacking it for historical argument

Katie Sheds

ShedsKatie

On statues, BLM, & Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Tissue’ (a thread). I was talking to a colleague recently about the kids in their bubble who were, for want of a better term,

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