{"id":389,"date":"2013-10-03T18:43:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T22:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=389"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:10:43","slug":"link-thursday-twitter-iambic-pentameter-emily-dickinson-whitman-given-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Link Thursday &#8211; twitter iambic pentameter, Emily Dickinson, Whitman given voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Link <del>Wednesday<\/del> Thursday is back! Just in time for October. No promise that the links below will be timely or relevant.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;Twitter seems to be a font of found poetry. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pentametron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@pentamatron<\/a> joins in by creating rhymed iambic pentameter couplets out of random tweets.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;Ever wonder what artifacts and furniture <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/356518\/a-survey-of-emily-dickinsons-family-artifacts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emily Dickinson might have owned<\/a>? You can even admire a brooch she owned that Flavorwire so drolly notes she might have worn &#8220;For dressing up to go downstairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;The only known recording of Walt Whitman has been made available on the Internet. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/02\/hear_walt_whitman_maybe_reading_the_first_four_lines_of_his_poem_america_1890.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There is a debate<\/a> about its authenticity (it admittedly does sound crisper <a title=\"The Charge of the Light Brigade \u2013 Alfred, Lord Tennyson\" href=\"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">than this recording of Tennyson<\/a> from the same time period). You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/20157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hear the audio here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link Wednesday Thursday is back! Just in time for October. No promise that the links below will be timely or relevant. &gt;&gt;Twitter seems to be a font of found poetry. @pentamatron joins in by creating rhymed iambic pentameter couplets out of random tweets. &gt;&gt;Ever wonder what artifacts and furniture Emily Dickinson might have owned? You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,79],"tags":[85,83,84],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-wednesday","category-poetry-in-pop-culture","tag-emily-dickinson","tag-twitter","tag-walt-whitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}