E-POETRY 2003: An International Festival of Digital Poetry
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Topic: Poetry
Sort Desciption: and on the International Anthology of Digital Poetry and Of(f) the W.W.Web cd-roms. During the 1990s, he published interviews, reviews, ...
Content Inside: E-Poetry 2003: An International Festival of Digital Poetry West Virginia University, Morgantown April 23-26, 2003 Christopher Funkhouser 1 Note: Here is a WWW version of this report. Where papers &c. are posted online I link to them. Otherwise this is an attempt to re-present what was said and what happened at the Festival through transcription and reflection. An interactive, ergodic (amendable) hyper-linked/media version is available via http://www.spidertangle.net/phpwiki/index.php As (or if) the WIKI is developed (i.e. information is corrected/added--hopefully it will be) and as further links are available this document will be altered as necessary. As with so much, this is under construction… Directions in E-Poetry As a follow-up to an impressive 2001 event with the same moniker, this year’s E- Poetry--co-organized by Sandy Baldwin (West Virginia University, Center for Literary Computing) and Loss Pequeño Glazier (SUNY-Buffalo, Electronic Poetry Center)--brought together passionate producers of digital writing from several nations and widely diverse creative perspectives. The official subtext for the festival was to “focus on the ‘poetry’ in ‘E- Poetry,” a point that received ample and indefinite attention from first to last event of the four day gathering. An “artist and practitioner-oriented” series of events forged in the spirit of some of the early poetry festivals (namely the 1963 and 1965 events in Vancouver and Berkeley, E-Poetry 2003 could influence future generations of e-poets if its news is circulated and considered more widely. With this possibility in mind, this report is for those who could not attend. Twenty-eight formidable individuals (a “stunning group of people” –LPG) were featured in Morgantown, and perhaps half that many non-participants were present at any given time during the Festival. E-Poetry 2003 was an intimate meeting that featured several of ...
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