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get your poem on #33: with a plot twist*

by Deb Scott and Dana Guthrie Martin

*and the one wherein Deb and Dana refer to themselves in third person

For this week’s Get Your Poem On, Deb and Dana are throwing a wrench into the works. We know y’all like to come here to the Get Your Poem On post and, well, get. your. poem. on. Which makes perfect sense. However, in your rush to get your poem on, you might not exactly be reading the content of said post. Are we right? We thought so.

This week we have important things to report. Very big RWP developments, ones we want you to hear. So we are stopping the presses, so to speak. We’ve decided to close comments on the Get Your Poem On post until 10 a.m. CST Monday. That’s right. No linkey poem love until we open the floodgates wide.

In the meantime, please sit tight, and while you are sitting tight, please read this post. Do it. (Please.)

So, last week we reported on starting the Read Write Poem Twitter page and invited people to have the username and password to that page in case they wanted to post there as part of the RWP community. We got exactly zero responses to that request. But are we dissuaded by the lack of response? Heck no. We’ve simply chosen to change up how we will use the page, and we’d like to explain a little more about it.

What we’ve decided to do is use the RWP Twitter page to tell folks about developments on the RWP website (that would be here) and on our new Read Write Poem Facebook group (that would be there). More on the Facebook page later. For now, let’s focus on the Twitter page.

In addition to using the RWP Twitter page to make official announcements about the project, we also want to use it to help you all connect with one another in new and wonderful ways.

Why Twitter when we can all simply blog? Because Twitter is like group instant messaging. Rather than hoping one of your poetry pals will stop by to weigh in on a question you just posted or read a brilliant poem you just put on your blog, you can post a short note (oh, and the 140-character limit on Twitter ensures your notes will be short!) on Twitter and your “tweet,” along with the tweets of everyone you are “following,” will appear on your own Twitter page. (Or a desktop application if you’d like, or even your cell phone. Now, we realize all this fancy talk might be too much for the older Twitterers — read: Deb – :-) )

Example: Dana “twittered” Deb into reading a great blog post of hers the other day, a post Deb might have missed if Dana had not twittered it.

Toward that end — communicating and poeming with each other — we would love for each and every one of you (but no pressure if you’re not into it) to sign up for your own Twitter account. (Just go over to Twitter and sign up. It’s easy peasy.)

The RWP Twitter page will “follow” all RWP participants who have Twitter accounts. That is, if you “follow” the RWP Twitter page. (We’ll only know you have your own Twitter page if you elect to follow us, then we’ll be notified that you’re following us and we can do the same for you.)

This will result in the RWP Twitter page having a big honkin’ list of RWP participants, so you all can go to our page and find other RWP Twitterers to follow.

This all sounds very complicated. But it’s not. Deb and Dana and Christine and several other RWPers are already twittering away. If they can do it, so can you. (And if this all seems very, very confusing, no worries: We are happy to take questions in the comments or through e-mail. Just ask.)

So do it. And then check back at noon Monday, when we will open comments on this post so you can Get Your Poem (and Twitter!) On.

Note: About the no-pressure part. We mean it. The RWP website will continue to bring you the same great content you’ve gotten used to. That won’t change. But if you are interested in growing our connectedness as a poetry community, all we are saying is give Twitter a chance.

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