Open Micro

I am very pleased to say that I’ve been invited to post at the group micropoetry blog, Open Micro.

Let us let my guru Dave Bonta explain:

Most people use microblog services like Twitter and its open-source counterpart Identica for updates on their daily activities, and that�s fine. Some people use them for hilarious bon mots � I try to follow as many of those as possible. At qarrtsiluni, we use Twitter and Identica to help disseminate news about the magazine and our contributors. There are even some novelists taking advantage of the medium, trickling out new work one or two sentences at a time � enough of them that a new word has been coined for the genre, twitterature. But some of us simply enjoy the challenge of trying to create complete poems or prose-poems within the strict confines of a single microblog post of 140 characters, spaces included.

There are actually quite a few haiku writers on Twitter, though of course not all of them take the art too seriously. But it was actually the much less populous Identica whose recent addition of groups sparked the creation of Open Micro. Some of us on Twitter and Identica had long been favoriting other people�s most lyrical notices and hoarding them in our Favorites pages (mine are here), but with the ability to create a Poetry group page came a new idea: wouldn�t it be cool if we could somehow combine all our favorites pages into one?

That�s essentially what Open Micro will do. We�re trying to be careful to get permission for everything we post, though this isn�t as onerous as it sounds, since any micropoem by a fellow contributor is fair game

Here are my favorites pages at Identi.ca and Twitter. I wouldn’t say all my favorites are lyrical but they’re all lively and whimsical.

And I hope you’ll stop by Open Micro and check us out. One hundred forty characters are very readable on screen and the group has a lot of talent. I’ve put a link in my blogroll to make it easy for you to find us.

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