E-Poetry (CG)

E-Poetry is a poetic practice made possible by digital media and technologies.  The technologies that shape digital media are diverse, rapidly evolving and can be used to such different effects the term has expanded to encompass a large number of practice.

            Three weeks ago I had no clue what E-Poetry was or what I did my best answer if asked would have been probably something that was just on the computer. After learning about digital humanities and looking at pieces of electronic poetry, electronic poetry can be anything that was born digital.

            There are seven different types of electronic poetry

·      Generative Poetry

·      Code Poetry

·      Visual Digital Poetry

·      Kinetic Poetry

·      Multimedia Poetry

·      Interactive Poettry

Programming algorithms and drawing to create poetic lines produces Genarative. Code poetry is written for a duel audience a computer and its human readers. Visual Digital poetry is what it sounds something that you can see. Kinetic poetry uses the computers ability to show you what’s going on and involves changing text and images. Multimedia poetry incorporates audio, video, pictures, text and other modes of communication in its strategies. Interactive poetry incorporates input from readers to continue the poem.

At the end of the day electronic poetry can be anything. The only thing that slows down the advancement of digital humanities and electronic literature is not thinking outside the box. When you look at examples of electronic poetry stay open minded because if you look at it the right way it might have an impact on your life.

My favorite piece of electronic literature is Paddle by Neil Hennessy.Its a very simple poem that the words go from piddle to paddle to peddle and you can see that throughout the poem.

Electronic Poetry doesn’t have to be complex it can be as simple as Paddle by Neil Hennessy