Have a gander at the Digital Poetry Wikipedia entry.
No matter your feelings about this resource, we should work to fix this up….it does a fine
job of representing a certain geographic of digital poetry, but needs clean-up and expanding.
So who wants to?
Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God, as one who perseveres in some purpose which he has conceived to be excellent in spite of adversity and torture, is to one who in the cold security of undoubted triumph inflicts the most horrible revenge upon his enemy, not from any mistaken notion of inducing him to repent of a perseverance in enmity, but with the alleged design of exasperating him to deserve new torments.
–Percy Bysshe Shelley. “A Defence of Poetry” (512).
I love electronic literature because I hate computers.
I know it sounds crazy, because everyone who knows me surely must think that I love my computer. I’ve been active in online publishing for about 10 years. I served as a tech editor for the journal Rhizomes, a founding editor of Reconstruction (which was initially described as an “online cultural studies community”), and recently responded to Jason Nelson’s call to launch Netpoetic. So confessing my irrational hatred for a thing that I rely upon everyday must come as a surprise to many of you who are reading this.
All,
In the most grand words possible, I am pleased the initial (as in the last few hours) response has been good. The site will take some time to develop and grow. But I am hoping once we get some initial posts and such going, we can start to promote more and reach out to the press and venues etc.
If anyone has any idea for people to invite…please do let me know…….
cheers, Jason
Welcome to NetPoetic.com. If you are reading this, you’ve either stumbled on the page or have been recently invited to participate. If the later…. here is what we are doing:
This is a group blog about anything and everything related to digital poetry. There are sites out there exploring the field. But we aim to be the home, the central node, the meeting place for all manner of news, ideas, artwork, poetry etc. When the Press, Reviewers, Academics and the like ask…”where can I learn more about digital poetry?” we will send them here. So your voice/words and all you post will be heard/read/stared at.
These are the only rules:
1. your posts should be related to digital poetry/art/literature.
2. please post at least five times a year.
3. please do not post straight text poetry. we like links and ideas and thoughts. you know what I’m talking about.
4. dont disrupt other posts or the general workings of the site.
5. please experiment and share.
Please send Jason your email address, website address, chosen user and pass and your website address. And if you dont think I know you…then tell me who you are please. Send all this to: heliopod -youknowtheATsymbolhere- gmail -then the dot- com
