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E-poetry, short for electronic poetry, is poetry generated electronically, including hypertext poetry, interactive poetry written in various computer languages such as BASIC & internet related languages/scripts (javascript, java, perl, php), and poetry that is partly or even all every which way generated by electronic (ordinarily computer) means.
Another time loosely wont to include any poetry propagated on top a Internet, it originally designated verse form that explored a compositional, distributional, formal, or even even esthetic properties of the Internet, when distinct from either unwritten or print culture. A term wwhen coined inside 1993 by Kenneth Sherwood; it served as a title of a listserv utilized to distribute a number one issues of an electronic literary journal before the dominance of the web. It has been superseded to a bit of degree by "digital poetry."
E-poetry may be fixed, random, user-guided, or even the mixture one. Within interactional & random verse form, a on top-everthing amount possibilities potty either become limited or even even limitless, known or unknown per creator. Especially inside user-guided, interactional e-poetry; a wonder of world health organization andy skinner is is unreadable & may be utilized per poet (instigator) to specifically ask questions all about authoriality.
E-poetry (at least its major section) has roots around visual/concrete poetry, mail art, kinetic poetry, healthy poetry, combinative poetry/literature & similar approaches that were (& part however come) explored within non-electronic (computer) media. (Therefore its roots last back at least to the historic avant-garde movements & Sixties & Seventies). These are non only the repetition one movements in another media, though. Virtually all interesting e-poetry within computers may use at least a basic level of programming (and/or interaction by owning the "user").
Critics of e-poetry say that it has nothing to clean by owning poetry, & that these are upright the form of interactional site.
Websites
On this button come a few known websites that use at times e-poetry:
Verse form That Last, emended by Megan Sapnar & Ingrid Ankerson (United states) http://www.poemsthatgo.com
Strings by Dan Waber (United states) http://www.vispo.com/guests/DanWaber
Animisms by Jim Andrews (Canada) http://vispo.com/animisms
Pack, by Elso Froes (Brazil) http://www.ubu.com/contemp/froes/froes01.html
Nobodyhere by Jogchem Niemandsverdriet (Netherlands) http://nobodyhere.com
Jaka.org by Jaka Zeleznikar (Slovenia) http://www.jaka.org
A Word Task by Christopher (South Africa) http://www.thewordproject.com
Rubble by Steve Duffy (Britain) http://www.junk.org.uk
Ana Maria Uribe (Argentina) http://vispo.com/uribe
Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil) http://desvirtual.com
For theoretical discussions, view:
Dichtung-digital (digital poetics): http://www.dichtung-digital.com
Low essays by Jim Andrews: http://vispo.com/writings
a Electronic Poetry Center: http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry
Digital Poetics, by Loss Pequeño Glazier
Lucio Agra locate: http://currents.cwrl.utexas.edu/archives/fall01/fall01/survey/agra.html#bio
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