Digital poetry

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Digital poetry refers to a wide range of approaches to poetry that all have in common prominent and crucial use of computers. Digital poetry can be available on the World Wide Web or Internet (via email lists, for instance), CD ROM, as installations in art galleries, etc. A significant portion of current publications of poetry are available either only online or via some combination of online and offline publication. There are many types of 'digital poetry' such as hypertext, kinetic poetry, code poetry, and poetries that take advantage of the programmable nature of the computer to create works that are interactive, or are generative of text, or involve sound poetry, or take advantage of things like listservs, blogs, and other forms of network communication to create communities of collaborative writing and publication (as in poetical wikis).

Digital computers allow the creation of art that spans different media: text, images, sounds, and interactivity via programming. Contemporary poetries have, therefore, taken advantage of this toward the creation of works that synthesize both arts and media. Whether a work is poetry or visual art or music or programming is sometimes not clear, but we expect an intense engagement with language in poetical works.

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Digital Poetry - http://slope.org/archive/issue17/antonio_essay.html. - Jorge Luiz Antonio (Brazil)

• Dichtung Digital (Digital Poetics, Berlin): Critical writing about digital poetry and poetics from around the world in English and German
• Electronic Book Review (USA): Critical writing mainly on USA digital poetry and electronic literature more broadly.
• Jim Andrews (Canada): Poet-programmer exploring programming, visuals and audio, but focussing on language.
• The Word Project (South Africa):Concrete poetry concentrating on words and letters. Very conceptual.
• Simon Biggs (UK): Poet-programmer exploring code and visuals as part of digital poetry.
• Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil): English-language poetry from the multi-lingual Brazilian poet of "The Book After the Book".
• Ted Warnell (Canada): Early practitioner of a form of networked digital poetry known as code poetry.
• Mez Breeze (Australia): Writer of a form of netwurked poetry via her constructed computer-[poetic]English language mezangelle.
• Aya Karpińska (USA): Digital media artist working with interactive and 3-D poetry.