“The linguist Ben Zimmer said he thought the growing popularity of the service as a creative outlet could be ascribed to the same ‘impulse that goes into writing a sonnet, of accepting those kind of limits.’”
via NYTimes.com.
Also: 140-character poems by Billy Collins, Robert Pinksy, Elizabeth Alexander, and Claudia Rankine, here.
MAD about Words
is the brainchild (and heartchild) of
Mary Ann de Stefano
