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1. The Dreamlife of Letters

   A Flash animation, based on a text by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, that attempts to explore the ground between classic concrete poetry, avant-garde feminist practice, and "ambient" poetics (that's really just plain fun to watch).

   (Source: Author's Description from ELC Vol. 1)

   Patricia Tomaszek - 16.09.2010 - 16:54

2. The Jew's Daughter

   The Jew's Daughter is an interactive, non-linear, multivalent narrative, a storyspace that is unstable but nonetheless remains organically intact, progressively weaving itself together by way of subtle transformations on a single virtual page.

   (Source: Authors' description from ELC 1.)

   Patricia Tomaszek - 17.09.2010 - 21:56

3. Bust Down the Doors!

   Bust Down the Doors! presents the reader with a story of nighttime violence, where the victim remembers a peaceful happening in the past. The narrative is presented in black and white text and with an audio consisting of rhythmic sounds.

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 05.09.2011 - 14:34

4. Car Wash

   A kinetic poem reflecting on the death of the author's father that uses the car wash as a metaphor for passing between worlds.

   Scott Rettberg - 30.10.2011 - 20:36

5. Red Lily

   Red Lily is a Flash poem divided into three musical movements that address the pain of lost love. Visual symbols, like a child playing with ducklings and a calla lily, juxtapose innocence and death, while the sound of the tolling bell coupled with textual clues of blood and needles emphasize love's end.

   (Source: description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition, MLA 2012)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 28.01.2012 - 14:51

6. While Chopping Red Peppers

   Like the advice given by the speaker’s father, this kinetic and aural poem is all about “presentation and perfect arrangement.” It is about knowing where to cut visual and aural language, images and sound clips, arranging them on the poem’s space to make an impression. Yet while the speaker seems to be learning what her father has to say, one can sense the tension in her as she conforms to a vision of how one presents oneself and in what contexts. The masculinity of the images juxtaposed with the words “a firm handshake, after church” contrast with the more feminine figure we see leaning by the stove or hunched in silhouette. Listen to this poem and you’ll realize that it hovers in that space between tradition and innovation, expressive orality and through new media, conformity and rebellion, and different types of distance and proximity. (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.03.2012 - 19:29

7. A Fine View

   Part of the “Words in Space” series, this deceptively simple poem uses VRML to provide us with a first person point of view of this poem. The lack of control as we fall past the lines, reading them as we go at an accelerating pace, helps us identify with Bill, a roofer “who lost / his footing in the dew / slick plywood.” In this virtual environment, the letters, words and lines gain an architectural physicality that reinforces the poem’s setting. Soft music in the background of this poem sets a sad tone for a situation full of gravitas.

   Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry.

   Leonardo Flores - 10.03.2012 - 22:00

8. Velo City

   Velo City, de Tina Escaja es un hiperpoema del año 2000 que utiliza el hipertexto (enlaces) y los multimedia (animación Flash). Tiene como tema central la velocidad, pero no la física del espacio partido por el tiempo, sino la propia del internauta en sus viajes siderales por el ciberespacio desplazándose casi instantáneamente hacia cualquier punto del planeta.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 28.03.2012 - 10:36

9. JABBER: The Jabberwocky Engine

   JABBER produces nonsense words that sound like English words, in the way that the portmanteau words from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky sound like English words.

   When a letter comes into contact with another letter or group of letters, a calculation occurs to determine whether they bond according to the likelihood that they would appear contiguously in the English lexicon. Clusters of letters accumulate to form words, which results in a dynamic nonsense word sound poem floating around on the screen with each iteration of the generator.

   JABBER realises a linguistic chemistry with letters as atoms and words as molecules.

   (Source: Author's description at Poems That Go)

   Scott Rettberg - 18.10.2012 - 10:58

10. Pushkin Translation

    Megan Sapnar’s Pushkin Translation, published on Poems that Go presents a poem by Aleksandr Pushkin in Russian, translated by Dimitry Brill. As the reader moves the cursor over the poem, the text is revealed in English and read aloud in Russian. In the background, a Russian folk song recorded by the Ospipov State Russian Folk Orchestra plays. The work includes a long titles sequence that gives credit not only to the author, the translator, and the musical performers, but also FreaKaZoid, a Flash programmer from whom Sapnar got some help on the actionscript implementation. The designer Sapnar responded to Pushkin’s work by remixing his text with the work of several other authors and performers, both remediating the original poem and creating a new work in the process, that provides a new way of reading the original.Megan Sapnar’s Pushkin Translation, published on Poems that Go presents a poem by Aleksandr Pushkin in Russian, translated by Dimitry Brill. As the reader moves the cursor over the poem, the text is revealed in English and read aloud in Russian. In the background, a Russian folk song recorded by the Ospipov State Russian Folk Orchestra plays.

    Scott Rettberg - 25.10.2012 - 12:33

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