“Cordite 36: Electronica has been a fascinating and challenging issue to put together. It contains forty new poems, fifteen spoken word tracks, a dozen features and, for the first time, a selection of multimedia or ‘e-lit’ works. Bringing together these disparate types of content raises an interesting question for Cordite as an online journal. Have [...]

All, Excuse my long, long absence. But I’m back to play. I’m hoping we can re-energize this community of ours. So any ideas would be more than lovely. But first some news! Brian Stefans has curated a series of Digital Poems/Fictions. One pagers he calls them for the San Francisco Gallery of modern art. Many [...]

Hello Word! An evening of poetry, performance, and experimental text design from NYU/ITP’s Reading and Writing Electronic Text Friday, May 6th 2011 7pm 721 Broadway, New York, NY Ground floor (Common room) FREE Over the course of Spring semester, sixteen NYU students have engaged in intense electro-textual experiments: composing, mangling, generating and remixing electronic text [...]

Jason Nelson notes:  This promises to be a very exciting development. Even if you don’t submit something, please do send them messages of support and congratulations. We need more literary Journals exploring the genre. Call for Submissions of Digital Animation, Electronic Literature etc. The Prairie Schooner literary journal and the Center for Digital Research in the [...]

All, Sadly I’m sick again. Crap, damn, hell. And this time the consequences might be higher than a few weeks rest. Damnit. But blogish personal dribble aside. I’m eager to re-energize this community. I’ll be sending out an email later today, between naps, asking for ALL AUTHORS to post videos/photos of where they create/work/write/are inspired. [...]

I’ve been working on a project based on my courses on electronic literature. I’ve been teaching it for over five years now, and am getting a sense of the texts that I use. However, I always feel like I’m building the class from the ground up every time, so I thought it would be cool [...]

Announcing a special issue of the bi-lingual german-based journal “SPIEL” concerning archiving digital literature. Electronic literature and E-Poetry is updated, interactive, subjective and well networked. But how durable is it? How long do texts published on web pages remain readable? What happens to the old issues if one visits a literature magazine “through the web”? [...]

All, I am damn sorry for having been away from NetPoetic.  Damn damn sorry. So I figure it is time for a re-launch.  As part of the re-launch festivities or activities or really to get this site growing and glowing and flowing again, I think we should start with some question/answers play. So starting tomorrow, [...]

All, UPDATE: Joerg has mentioned that this same work is also getting an honorary mention at Ars Electronica. Holy crap….time to move to a new format. Again congratulations to Joerg and vote for him at File Prix Our very own Joerg Pringer has been nominated for the File Prix in Brazil for his “ABCDE……” IPhone [...]

While on a recent arts residency in the curious city of Newcastle, I soaked in enough local lore and culture and hidden secrets to create a large scale digital poem. Sydney’s Siberia is an infinitely zooming, mosaic generating, entirely interactive artwork that explores Newcastle through 121 poetic image/tiles. As with most digital poems there is [...]

Greetings all! A heads-up: the 7th issue of Hyperrhiz, “New Media Subversions,” is now online, guest-edited by Davin Heckman and Hai Ren. Featuring essays from Davin Heckman and Hai Ren, Neil Hennessy, Brian M. Reed, Benjamin J Robertson, Andrew Klobucar, and Brett Phares With gallery works by: Neil Hennessy, Nicholas Knouf, Angela Ferraiolo and Mary Flanagan, Jason Nelson, and Brett Phares And a very fine review [...]

Simply thought I would share a recent interview with me in an art and design blog. Not sure if my thoughts illuminate or muddy the digital poetry waters, but I would be ever interested in your thoughts all the same.  Oh and please do leave a comment on their site, just to let them know [...]

the following is From Deena Larsen. “Please pass this out far and wide, as it is a wonderful chance to explain to NPR that yes, Virginia, there IS electronic literature. In this story at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122026529, writer Nicolas Carr laments “Over the last couple of years, I’ve really noticed if I sit down with a book, after [...]

All, A interesting introductory article on Electronic Literature in the lovely E-Zine Flavorpill. Article author Sabrina Jaszi writes, “ Some of the best reads this season are being produced by electronic writers — techies devoted to the life of literature off the printed page. Their experimental fiction and poetry is colorful, cacophonous, animated and interactive — and [...]

All, I’m pleased, no terribly pleased, no wonderfully pleased to announce that NetPoetic now has over 100 posts and well over two hundred comments.  So it seems the site is working, or at least beginning to work.  Although we can do much, much more. I’d like to encourage those out there, if they haven’t already, [...]