Social Media: Poetweet & More
The official #PoetweetNYC contest is going on a temporary hiatus for 2019. But NYC Twitterers are still encouraged to use the hashtag to share their odes to the city so nice, they named it twice - and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (@NYCulture) will share some favorites!
Last year’s winners are listed below. Stay tuned for more information regarding future contests.
2018 #PoetweetNYC Contest
To celebrate National Poetry Month, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (@NYCulture) hosted the ninth annual #PoetweetNYC Twitter poetry contest from April 16 to April 20, 2018. The winners were announced in Metro New York newspaper on Poem in Your Pocket Day (April 26, 2018) and on City social media channels.
#PoetweetNYC for Mother Earth
2018's contest coincided with the 40th year of operation of NYC's Materials for the Arts (@MFTAnyc) program - the City's premiere creative reuse center - and culminated the Friday before Earth Day (April 22). To celebrate these two auspicious events, this year we encouraged submissions on the theme of the environment and sustainability.
This was also the first year of the contest under Twitter's new, expanded character limit so entrants plumbed the depths of their feelings toward Mother Earth.
Contest Judges
For 2018, the followingesteemed panel of judges selected this year's winning poetweets:
- Chirlane McCray, First Lady of New York City
- Jennifer Benka, Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets
- Alice Quinn, Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America
- Mark Chambers, Director, Mayor's Office of Sustainability
- Tom Finkelpearl, Commissioner, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Read the full 2018 #PoetweetNYC contest rules.
2018 #PoetweetNYC Winners
Compost: Your dinner's ghost
— Zachary Sicardi (@ZSicardi) April 18, 2018
Haunting a plant with carbon's past
Allowing it to boast.
Take an oath to growth and cycle what we sow
Or low and behold, you've trifled all we know.
Almost, ever growing close
To seeing the freeing of seedlings vast
Honoring our host.#poetweetNYC
Haiku RT for Earth Day and #PoetweetNYC
— Melanie Rock (@browngirlcu) April 16, 2018
Garden = Church:
Stained earth hands divine
a host of revelations
Beckoned by the light
Treetop tenements
— stardogstudio (@stardogstudio) April 17, 2018
My loud neghbors, The Sparrows
(The chattering class)
john morse, 2015 #haiku#PoetweetNYC
#PoetweetNYC I found one man's trash turned it to treasure/an aluminum crown adorns me as I run towards forever/another's empty box became my sacred trove/what they discard/I mold into art and let natural beauty rove.
— Lena Williamson (@lenalandwill1) April 16, 2018
Winter overslept, hit snooze 3 times over.
— DreamYard Project (@Dream_Yard) April 19, 2018
But from glass and brick caves, the city awakes to
Daffodil sunbursts and evergreen clover.
Rub your sleepy eyes,
The cold fog replaced by crimson Hudson River skies. #PoetweetNYC
TWEETS FROM THE STREET
Celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day with fellow poetry lovers from across the U.S. using #pocketpoem. Poetry is everywhere if you look for it. Use #NationalPoetryMonth all month long to follow along with National Poetry Month activities across in New York and across the country.