There are a number of ways to view Twitter: A pioneering news source. A tool for real-time communication. The death-knell of long-form prose. Or, perhaps, the world's largest repository of poetry—billions of fragments of verse posted every week, of natures variously expressive and confessional and political and abstract.

Rather than reading these as so many discrete lines, or micro-poems, as one might through the Twitter feed, Ranjit Bhatnagar treats the entire Twitterverse as a body of source material. He has created an algorithm that scans Twitter for stress patterns and rhyme, and culls from it perfect fourteen-line Elizabethan sonnets.

Pentametron, as Bhatnagar calls it, creates several of these sonnets a day. They are haunting and funny and inspired and banal all at once, and serve as a dizzying kaleidoscopic lens onto the nature of writing and experience on the internet. We hope you enjoy.

Will Guzzardi and Travis Smith,

Poetry Editors