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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

2 years

Art is the opposite of propaganda.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Reminder that #haiku have nothing to do with counting syllables. There's no such thing as 5-7-5. A haiku is two worlds in one breath. It's the use of juxtaposition to capture the complexity of a moment. Most things labeled haiku are not haiku at all.

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Timothy Green

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10 months

I'm going to start tweeting a lot just to see what happens. Now that most poets are gone, it feels like a free space to act socially as myself.

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Timothy Green

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10 months

My policy on social media is that I follow anyone I notice who is interesting OR interacts with me and isn't a jerk. Then I unfollow anyone who I see acting like a jerk. The definition of "jerk" is subject to my whim. Is there any other way to do it?

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Timothy Green

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4 months

I'm so tired of the literary community that I don't even know what to tweet anymore. If I didn't find real people and honest poems so fascinating, I'd have bailed such a long time ago.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

7 months

Who needs Times Square when you can spend New Year's Eve holed up in your office putting the next issue of a poetry magazine together?

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Timothy Green

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6 months

I've been forcing myself to find time I don't have to read poems for pleasure again. I recommend it.

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Timothy Green

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5 months

That we still write and share poems despite the constant indignity of writing and sharing poems is a true testament to their spiritual value.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

3 months

The idea that you can tinker a poem into perfection is a mass-delusion necessitated by the fact that workshops subsidize most of poetry's economy. All you can really learn from them is how to write the next poem more effectively. Art comes from the iteration.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

There's nothing more damaging to poetry than the idea that poetry is subjective. Everyone can sing, too. Imagine if the music industry marketed itself as subjective self-expression, so there was no reason to bother singing in tune.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

7 months

This was sweet to see from @chillsubs "Best Lit Mags" list . Honestly, between negativity bias and interacting with so many people, the trolls really stand out, and I often feel actively disliked. Whoever left this comment in their survey made my day, thanks.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

I never cared to be a poet or editor. I just thought poetry was an interesting tool that was radically undervalued. That's still how I feel 20 years later.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

From the big twist to the soft landing, there are 1,000 ways to end a poem. This week on The Poetry Space_ with @Katie_Dozier , we're going to be talking about poem endings—and this is the kind of episode where we need your help! What's your favorite ending to a poem?

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Every poem isn't meant for everyone. In fact, if you loved every poem we published, you'd become habituated and lose interest. Like happiness, the joy of a great poem is in its pursuit. And where we find it is often idiosyncratic.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

5 months

Trying to rewrite a poem from my 30s with the energy of my 20s but the wisdom of my 40s. Will it work?

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Writing poems is zen. Sharing poems is brazen.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

It's okay not to have a strong opinion about a complicated issue you know little about.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

3 months

@BeckyLTuch It's an inevitable outcome in an era where literature has become a form of in-group virtue signaling. Hopefully it's just a phase, because it's the exact opposite of what I love about literature (exploring diverse perspectives). but everything evolves, sometimes sadly.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

@EricRWeinstein UFO mythology was a Cold War psy-op used to snipe hunt foreign intelligence and to smokescreen advances in aviation technology. But it's just a coincidence UFOs are returning now that the Cold War is back and drones are the future of warfare.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

3 months

We complain a lot about contemporary poetry being too "academic," but learning institutions are what prop the whole thing up. The sad reality about the big publishers is explained well in the article below, which pulls a lot of interesting quotes and numbers from the recent

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of time. This is what's known as a hinged monoku by the way.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

Happens to us all …

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

7 months

The kids are with their mom, so I spent last night reading letters and poems from prisoners. This was half of it. I'm going to send some surprise Christmas acceptance letters before picking them up. Not a bad way to spend the holiday.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

This week on #ThePoetrySpace_ with @Katie_Dozier , we're talking about something everyone is familiar with: rejection. How do you deal with it as a poet? How do you deal with it as an editor? What goes into a rejection letter? How should you respond to one? 1/

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

6 months

There are 180,000 poets in our database, and less than 1,000 are at #AWP24 . That's less than 0.5%. Don't worry that you're missing out.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Because I used the word "poetry" last night, @RealisticPoetry followed me. That was probably a mistake. 102 of you are following their account, but they have all the appearance of a vanity scam, and these are the the kind that upset me the most.🧵 1/

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

2 years

Poetry is still so alive that the New York Times finds us worthy targets for outrage porn, I see.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

5 months

Many readers just want to hear their own view articulated back at them. That's fine, but I've never understood it. What I want from literature is the exact opposite: I want to think things I wouldn't have thought from perspectives I wouldn't have seen. Nothing else interests me.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

The actual downside of posting a lot is that I have to be reminded how toxic and hateful so much of the poetry "community" is. I wouldn't care if I didn't also love poetry and humanity. But I do, so it's really sad to me that this is the state of it.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

2 years

If you ever wonder why I never comment on whatever the latest literary drama, it's because I find it all so childish and embarrassing to the beauty of art and the complexity of humanity that it makes me question all of my life choices.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

The ghazal is one of the most powerful forms of poetry, but after haiku, it's probably the most misunderstood. It's our current submission theme @RattleMag —and the topic of this week's episode of #ThePoetrySpace_ with @Katie_Dozier ! 1/🧵

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

4 months

There's no art without honesty.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

I hadn't submitted a poem for publication in about 15 years. I always thought, though, that my first would be to @OneArtPoetry1 —I really appreciate how @MarkDanowsky stays compassionate while also standing behind his editorial choices. And here it is:

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

8 months

@billmckibben Wow, it's somewhat noticeably warmer than the coldest period in the last 10,000 years. That will be comforting to the 4.5 million people who freeze to death this year.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

The poetry community doesn't believe in censorship. It's a core value. We've always been at war with censorship.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of the mystery. Technically this is senryu, which are haiku about human foibles rather than nature, but the distinction isn't particularly significant in English.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

It was this day 20 years ago that I submitted four poems by email to @RattleMag . It was the second time I'd sent poems anywhere. By the time this poem came out in issue 22, I was already on staff, and I've been doing this ever since. Life is weird.

“Cooking Dinner” by Timothy Green

Spring again. Its warmer breeze. Open screen door. Continue reading →

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

For example, I wrote this poem in the fall of 2020, still believing I was happily married, utterly clueless about how depressed I was.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Are poetry contests necessary? Can they be run ethically? Which are the best? Which are the worst? What aspects bother you the most? Let's have an Airing of Grievances! 1/2

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of 575! Never said they can't be, only said that's not what makes it haiku.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

The work of a poem is to create meaning, not to convey meaning. Poiesis is "to make." It's the process engineering mental objects. 1/4

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Going to start writing and sharing a #dailyhaiku as a spiritual practice. I've been talking about the value of that for years as a way to foster gratitude for the world. Time to actually practice what I preach.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

5 months

Isn't every poem a revision of the first poem that you wrote?

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

#DailyHaiku courtesy of the neighbors.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of @Walmart .

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

3 months

Who is the best contemporary songwriter/poet? My pick is @anidifranco . The lyrics to an album like UpUpUp could just be a book of poems. Who would you pick if you could only read their lyrics? And which record?

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Knowing nothing about #EmilyDickinson , this has been my assumption: She was a pivot-point for literature, living at the nexus of the Industrial Revolution, Darwinishm, literacy, and Spiritualism. She's the moment poetry shifted from an explanatory to an exploratory practice. 1/x

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

I don't care much about traditional publishing TBH, but I've always wanted to have poems in @LightPoetryMag . We need more humor! Thanks to @MelissaBalmain and crew for curating this one, based on an actual NPR headline.

Timothy Green

BACK | CONTENTS | NEXT How to Apologize Like You Really Mean It. —actual NPR headline, later edited It helps, of course,to really mean it.But if you merely need to seem it,then keep in...

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of love.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

2 years

Poetry is a grand dialogue across time. Consumers become producers as they're drawn into the conversation. As a result, supply always paces demand, & poetry can never be financially profitable. Fortunately we profit in so many other ways that this becomes one of its beauties.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

5 months

Applied for an NEA fellowship for the first time because why not? Big thanks to the editors who asked for poems recently! That is a place traditional publishing really matters—I had exactly the necessary 20 poems published within the time-frame. One fewer haiku and I'd be out!

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

Daily haiku over dinner.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

@billmckibben Terrible how wildfires are increasing oops

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

@anecdotal @JonHaidt @glukianoff Sometimes it's just that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. There are many similar well-meaning failures in education and sociology—whole language reading instruction, for one example. Even this one roots in the failed self-esteem movement.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

8 months

Note: This is what happens when you stop shaving your head for 2 months for the first time in 20 years to see what will happen.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

Daily haiku courtesy of dinner.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

There's just too much hate on social media. That's the bottom line. We need more love all around.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

3 months

@EricRWeinstein Wouldn't the other side also say the other side is DARVOing?

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of rush hour.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of the drive to the airport.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

5 months

Maybe I would annoy people less if I said "in my opinion" more often. I don't, because that phrase is utterly redundant, in my opinion. All we can really do is utter our opinions, in my opinion. Facts are hard to come by. Even in 3rd grade I had trouble with this.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

2 years

A crown of sonnets is 7 of them around a theme, where the last line of one becomes the first of the next. A heroic crown does that 14 times, and the repeating lines become a 15th sonnet that had been hiding inside the whole thing. What an effort on an important topic this one is.

Rattle

@RattlePoetry

2 years

A light wind makes a halo of your hair. I feel at ease with, although far from death, And take a deep gulp in of summer air to ask the question that this day makes clear: would I be you if I had grown up here? —Anna M. Evans

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of connection.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

Daily haiku courtesy of insomnia.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

It's amazing how many poems I don't remember writing knew me better than I did at the time.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Jane Hirshfield is one of my all-time favorite poets, especially for her thoughts on poetry in books of essays, Nine Gates and Ten Windows. Can't wait to talk to her tonight!

Rattle

@RattlePoetry

10 months

What Aeschylus omitted: those who cannot act will suffer too. —Jane Hirshfield Jane is the guest tonight on Rattlecast 214. Join us live at 8pm ET on YouTube, Twitter, or right here on Facebook!

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

2 years

A year ago, my resolution was to take my own writing seriously again. I just spent New Year's Eve putting together a manuscript, which I submitted to @tupelopress 's Dorset Prize, one worth the longshot of winning. And I have to say it's a damn good book. So that worked.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Human beings are addictive by nature, but for the first time we've learned how to hack it all. We need a restorative era, and ironically, that restoration is mostly poetry, which was the first digital technology. Touch trees and write #haiku .

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

When I first read "The Emperor of Ice Cream," I was a sophomoric teenager smug with materialism, and thought its message was the blunt truth about life as an evolutionary program of hedonistic conditioning, and the belief in anything more was a foolish delusion. Rereading the

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

4 months

Had a long dream that we published a great heroic crown of sonnets by @amjuster with a glaring typo in the title and page footers. Was relieved to wake up. It's the editor's equivalent of the one about having to take a final exam for the class we skipped all semester.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

@Joseph_Fasano_ After Dylan (and sometimes above) it's @anidifranco . Been thinking about doing a musician-poet issue and she's the first I'll see if we can interview. For example: Up, up, up, up, up, up points the Spire of the steeple But God's work isn't done by God It's done by people Up,

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of geology.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Sometimes I think about rage-quitting the literary world, until I remember that the rest of the world isn't any better. Other times I remember it's September 16th.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

7 months

This week on The Poetry Space_ with Katie Dozier we're talking about submissions. What's it like to read them? What's the best way to submit them? Gosh there are so many questions. What would you like us to address? Leave them below or join us tomorrow! 1/2

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

This week's #Rattlecast prompt was to write about a moral dilemma. I've tried to write this story several times, but the facts are too ironic for fiction. Maybe this #sonnet works. Next week: Write a long poem in one sentence.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

Katie & Tim live in NY!

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

@SomeSweetVandal This is the factual error that started it all when haiku was brought to the west. Mora and syllables aren't equivalent. Each syllable is up to 4 mora. Any long vowel sound is 2. As a result, a 17 syllable haiku is almost twice as long as it should be, ruining the instantaneous

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of the hard frost that never came last spring.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

To put it clearly and without sarcasm: Censorship is the silencing of someone else's speech against their will. A government, NGO, or online mob calling on someone else to remove speech (a poem, etc.) is an attempt at censorship. Giving in to those pressures is self-censorship.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

Daily haiku courtesy of tectonic shifts.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

8 months

Daily haiku courtesy of both what it sounds like and what it symbolically represents.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku brought to you by the view above the Mojave. It really was shocking to see how extensive they are now. These are the size of whole towns in black panel.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

2 years

So @Katie_Dozier can pin it, here's the sacrificial poem for today's episode of The Poetry Space_ … one of my own this time, though that usually won't be the case: "After Hopper" from American Fractal.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

9 months

This week's Rattlecast prompt was to write about a museum for some abstract concept, inspired by @MaryannCorbett 's poem "The Museum of American Opulence" from her new book The O in the Air. 1/

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Calling #haiku a poem with 17 syllables is like saying a sonnet is a poem shaped like a square. It's beside the point, but it's also not even true.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

#Dailyhaiku brought to you by the kitchen window.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

8 months

Daily haiku courtesy of the hardy hydrangea.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

10 months

Some days I feel like an expert in a field only a few people actually care about. Other days I feel like a novice.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

Anyone who thinks AI can't write real poems should meet Technelegy, @sashastiles ' writing partner. Its voice will move you. AI just needs to be trained on good poems and not doggerel. What does that mean for poetry? That's the topic on this week's episode of #ThePoetrySpace_ 🧵

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

3 months

Maybe a good sign for bookstores? The allotment request from our distributor for @RattlePoetry 's summer issue is back over 1,100 copies for the first time since they fell during the pandemic. Mostly they go to Barnes & Noble stores.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

1 year

This week on The Poetry Space_ with Katie Dozier we're talking about gratitude. This is really a spin-off from discussions about haiku: what makes haiku so wonderful, it really seems, is that haiku so often comes from a place of gratitude and of noticing.🧵

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@timothygreen

1 year

Another foot today on top of the four …

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@timothygreen

5 months

Poetry is mental yoga. That's its only future and why it will never be killed by Ai.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

2 years

Recently reminded of this meme revision I made many years ago. Still true.

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Timothy Green

@timothygreen

7 months

For years, I took my daughter to our monthly reading series. She'd start the open mic and then go read in the children's area. Such great memories, and she'll always have the confidence and public speaking skills she learned there. She's 13 now, and I'm feeling nostalgic.

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@timothygreen

10 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of Monet.

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@timothygreen

10 months

When I say "rage-quitting the literary world," I don't mean quitting @RattleMag . We're not in the literary world. We just like poems, and the intimacy of a human being revealing a piece of their soul through the music of speech.

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Timothy Green

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9 months

Daily #haiku courtesy of timing it right.