Our class’ definition of electronic literature as literary work that is born digital aptly describes Sampsa Nuotia and Raisa Omaheimo’s work “Google Poetics”. Their constantly growing collection of poems is an insightful, humorous, and sometimes saddening side effect of Google’s autocomplete feature. While Sampsa Nuotia and Raisa Omaheimo are the archivers of the work it is impossible for…
Author: Kyle
Save Me or Let me Go…The Will of E.R. Millhouse
“Living Will” by Mark C Marino is an interactive poem that names the reader executor of networking tycoon E. R. Millhouse’s will, which is the interactive poem. Millhouse is dying of a parasite infection he caught in his time working and living in the Congo. In making allotments, Millhouse divides his wealth and estate among four people: his son, Nigel;…
Form Within Form: Cube-Poems in Electronic Literature
Before you read on, check out “Series Eleven or Five” by Jason Nelson. So where did you click first? Rotate up or down? Or did you go through by line? Spending some time with it, I found that the easiest way to track how the cube moves is to make your own sixteen line poem and see what…
Begin Again…No. Stuck On the Title Page…What About Where My Name Goes?
The image to select Andy Campbell’s “The Rut” is what grabbed my attention. I think it is a well-chosen and useful image with which the text can be discussed. The image suggests to me that the artist identifies with the man that has been drawn. That, in a metaphorical sense, the white space of the paper is something that fills…