Let's use Twitter as a place to talk about poets and poetry, share poetry, share poetry links and resources, and, in general, put the verse in Twitterverse.

Every Thursday, 6 p.m. Pacific/9 p.m. Eastern

Using TweetChat: http://tweetchat.com/room/poetry
Using Twitter Search: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23poetry

The Plan

Let's all talk poetry on Twitter, and all use the #poetry hashtag as an identifier so we can find each other and follow along in a Twitter client like Tweetchat (or any other variant). All future chats will be Thursdays at 9 PM Eastern/ 6 PM Pacific.

The first schat was Friday, April 10th. The second chat was Thursday April 16th at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific.

Again, all future chats will be Thursday at that same time unless and until we discover a reason to change.

We'll shoot for an hour chat again knowing that it will likely go longer. Please invite others to join us! Again, I know this time won't work for everyone, but it seemed to be the best for the gathered crowd.

Why?

Why not?

But more specifically....

• it will be fun
• it's not easy to get people together to talk poetry... but Twitter has millions of possible chatters unbound by geography
• lots of poetry fits in 140 characters
• there are great resources to share
• we might find or create new poetry fans
  
• it really will be fun

In April, in particular, there would also be something poetic about #poetry becoming a trending topic on Twitter. Mind you, it would be poetic any time, but during National Poetry Month (in the U.S. and Canada, anyway), there might be more people thinking poetry already, so it might be easier to get the chat up to critical mass.

Does the Chat Need a Format?

Should this be a free flowing chat or does it need any sort of format -- time for sharing poems, time for conversation on a specific topic, time for sharing links, etc?

Does there need to be a "moderator" of some sort? Someone to announce official times if we think there should be topics, etc.

This may become apparent as we try a few chats, of course. We don't want structure to get in the way... but then again, structure and poetry aren't necessarily at odds, either!

There's a Feedback thread below, and I'd love to know what you think.

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