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Digital Poetry: Rhyme and Meter Merge Onto the Information Superhighway
Posted by
James
Guilford
on August 28, 2009 at 9:19pm
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As
a writer who finds himself bobbing and weaving about various literary rings, the
term "digital poetry" has been thrown at me several times. In the times I
encountered the term, I nodded and sipped my wine and hoped that the
conversation would chug along before someone asked a question and I was forced
to expose my ignorance. After hearing about digital poetry at a writer's
conference last Spring, then at a brainstorming session a few weeks ago, I
decided this emerging genre deserved my attention. But, the term itself-"digital
poetry"-left me confused. What qualified some poems as digital while others were
merely poems? How, exactly, did digital poetry differ from standard
verse?
The jargon around this emerging form can be even more harrowing
than the concept itself. "Combinatorial," "hyperformulated," and "labyrnthinic
structures"-these are a few of the mind-benders I encountered on my quest for
the best examples of digital poetry. Simply put, digital poetry is a literary
expression that employs technology to create poetry. As Norbert Bachleitner put
it in
Theory into Poetry: New Approaches
, "[E]very poem
published on the net or stored digitally… may be termed digital." But, unlike
traditional verse, digital poetry uses hyperlinks, visual symbolism, kinesthetic
elements, and software such as Excel, Powerpoint, and Photoshop to enhance
poetic expression. "The term digital," says Bachleitner, "should be reserved for
innovative works with specific qualities that cannot be displayed on paper."
Most frequently, in digital poetry, "digital" mediums are merged with
versification
and
concrete and shape poetry conventions
to engineer a new means
of poetic expression. The term digital poetry is someti -
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For the past two decades I've been a poet, multimedia artist, editor (of We Press and other projects), and critic (occasionally all at once). In 2006 I was a Fulbright Scholar at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, Malaysia; in the US I am an Associate Professor in the Humanities Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology. My book Prehistoric Digital Poetry:
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two decades I've been a poet, multimedia artist, editor
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