Shout out to Jean, Keara, Amanda, Donna, “Mr. C, Carlos,” Carmen, Jessica, Melissa, Erika, Donia, Terissa and Wren, and the other students in Ms. Wheeler’s sophomore group at New Tech West High in Cleveland, with whom I chatted this morning! Since it’s both National Poetry Month, and a good time to study history and talk about primary sources (I know, Erika, I know. Primary sources make you sad. However, they also make you ACCURATE!), today’s first poem is for the sophomores:
Al Gore did not invent it
Wikipedia
is both truth and wild theories
confirm your sources.taxonomy
are you sure this head
did not spring, fully formed from
Imagination?
And, for the rest of you, here are some poets tweeting – well, their poems are tweeting, anyway; I doubt Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes and others are really out there on Twitter. At least, man, I hope not… Hat tip to Book Riot.