“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 [...]

I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to help organize – alongside Dene Grigar and Kathi Inman Berens – the first ever electronic literature exhibit and reading at the MLA Annual Convention in Seattle, WA January 5th through the 7th. The exhibit in particular, which is formally supported by the MLA, marks an important moment in [...]

Announcing a collection of poetry generated interactively with computer programs: Gnoetry Daily Volume 1! It includes: N-gram generations (word-based and character-based) * Diastic readings * Cut-ups * n+7s * template generations * codework transformations metaphysical speculation, startling juxtapositions, profane ranting, unpopular political perspectives, and moments of great (though possibly incomprehensible) beauty our favorite poems from [...]

Hi, everyone– After a long hiatus, here are two new digital stories from webyarns.com… “Pangram (The Quick Brown Fox)” plays with the concept of a pangram and provides a hypothetical back-story to the most widely-known example of the form. The second story, the “ABCs of UFOs,” is the purported website of a UFO investigation team. [...]

Below are abstracts for the papers that Dene Grigar, Stephanie Strickland and Marjorie Luesebrink, myself, and Mark Sample will present at the January 2012 MLA Annual Convention in Seattle. We’re all delighted to find that our session is part of the Presidential Theme on “Language, Literature, Learning.” Our papers could certainly change between now and [...]

First, a request. Part of the recent Australian National Poetry Week celebrations included an article about how us proles aren’t appreciating poetry enough. (you know, apart from slam poetry, and rap, and poetry shared on the internet among friends… we ought to be reading more REAL poetry, the kind that counts!) Anyway, part of that [...]

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 [...]

CFP – Electronic Publishing Models for Experimental Literature EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION Rui Torres (FCHS/UFP) and Manuel Portela (FL/UC) The use of computers in the humanities raises creative, as well as institutional and intellectual questions. One important set of questions concerns new methods for editing and organizing different kinds of texts (graphic, audio, video, etc.). The impact [...]

Recently, I was fortunate enough to win the 2011 BIPVAL international Prix de Poésie Média. I was invited to Paris to receive the prize and, seeing an opportunity to express my thanks and at the same time give a plug for electronic literature, I prepared a few short words. For those who might be interested, [...]

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 [...]

Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 Launch at the Bergen Public Library Monday May 2, 2011 The Electronic Literature Research Group at the University of Bergen department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic studies welcomes you to attend two special events celebrating the launch of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2. The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2 [...]

The University of Lausanne is organizing an international conference entitled «From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era. Readings and Literacies» , which is to be held at Lausanne (CH), 23rd-25th August 2011. I’m quoting from the presentation provided by the organizers: The main purpose of the conference is to demonstrate the major impact of the Digital [...]

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. [...]

Just in time for VALENTINE’S DAY… Webyarns.com presents: “HE SAID, SHE SAID” is a lover’s conversation in text, image, and sound. The dialogue is random: he says one thing, she says another–the truth (and music) is someplace in between… URL of Story: http://www.webyarns.com/HESAIDSHESAID.html This may take a little time to load, so please be patient! [...]