For Poet Alex Dimitrov, Nothing Is Hopeless

It is inarguable that in the years since Alex Dimitrov, the author of Love and Other Poems, first logged on, in 2009, to what he then considered “a new opening for writers,” much about Twitter has changed. At the time, Dimitrov said in a recent interview, he wasn’t thinking much about the platform’s relationship to poetry in general or his art in particular. That changed fairly quickly as he began to publish on the site. In 2020, he began “Love,” a work billed as a never-ending poem, published first in The American Poetry Review and then infinitely onward via a Twitter account of its own.