Poetic tweets

In this paper, I explore some implications of social software for literary studies and expose how it enables participation in creative practice communities that are integrated into daily social activities. Twitter has become an integral part of my creative practice as an artist and poet. The forms are constrained by the limitations of 140 characters; however, this limitation is the midwife to innovative uses of language as well as to the resurgence of old forms like haiku. Twitter offers creative writers ways of participating and collaborating in global online poetry communities where writing takes on a performance as well as a social dimension.