It all starts with a photo on my timeline: a page of lightly stuccoed paper, uneven lines of text cascading across its surface like fault lines before an earthquake. Before I even read the poem, I notice the metrics. Thousands of likes—accompanied by a quote-tweet count climbing to menacing heights. The tremors are starting. Between academic literary Twitter and basic poem-enjoyer Twitter; between leftist, liberal, and right wing Twitter; between zoomer, millenial, and boomer Twitter; the tectonic plates of contemporary poetry discourse are about to collide.
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