This past summer I had the luxury of indulging in every passing intellectual whim (learning Processing, playing with old Commodore 64s, learning about typography, reading every digital poem I came across, etc.) at the same time as I tried to assimilate these nearly absurdly diverse interests into a coherent book project. I thought I would [...]

I thought readers of Netpoetic might be interested in this call for job applications.
The Electronic Literature Organization is accepting nominations and applications for two Directory Editors. The positions are part of the NEH-funded “The Electronic Literature Directory: Collaborative Knowledge Management for the Literary Humanities.” The project uses open source content management and social networking software [...]

Friends and colleagues, as I try to begin working on revising the dissertation into a book on digital poetry, I wonder what you think of this idea: turning my (currently haphazardly constructed) Diigo list on digital poetry into something like a bibliography or reading list for digital poetry that could be included at the end [...]

I haven’t yet heard any discussion of Scott Rettberg’s excellent essay “Communitizing Electronic Literature” that’s in the recent issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly. It’s one of the most clear-headed and smart assessments of the field that I’ve read in a long time.
But where Scott questions – rightly – the future popularity of e-literature – I [...]

Seeing that picture of me up on the blog (eeks! still, thanks Jason) has motivated me to put up a first poet – a very informal, bloggy sort of post. Simply, I thought I’d post about a conference paper I’d like to give this fall at the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts that [...]