Persian poetry by Twitter

June 28, 2009

More Twitter storytelling: Persian poetry written and shared by Twitter. Parham Baghestani seems to be using the 140-character limit as a helpful constraint.

Parham Baghestani tweets from three days in Iran (with English Translations)

So far as I can make out, these are lyrics, rather than pieces of a coherent narrative. Anyone else have further experience with Farsi, or these poems?

June 28, 2009 at 09:21 in Web 2.0 storytelling | Permalink

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