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! [...]

The New River is seeking works of electronic literature or new media by current students or recent graduates from electronic literature or new media programs. The journal intends to publish its next issue in spring 2011. If you know of a current student or recent graduate whose work you would recommend, could you either send [...]

I’ve been working on a project based on my courses on electronic literature. I’ve been teaching it for over five years now, and am getting a sense of the texts that I use. However, I always feel like I’m building the class from the ground up every time, so I thought it would be cool [...]

New online journal: Experimental Poetics and Aesthetics http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=759 by Jim Andrews Experimental Poetics is a new online journal in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Doc at the Radar Station http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=722 by Gregory Whitehead Whitehead writes of the impact of Captain Beefheart on his own work. Nick Montfort & Stephanie Strickland / Sea and Spar Between http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=716 [...]

Announcing a special issue of the bi-lingual german-based journal “SPIEL” concerning archiving digital literature. Electronic literature and E-Poetry is updated, interactive, subjective and well networked. But how durable is it? How long do texts published on web pages remain readable? What happens to the old issues if one visits a literature magazine “through the web”? [...]

Webyarns.com presents, for your amusement, true myths from around the world… and your backyard. MythWatch.org, a new digital story, is at MythWatch.org This one takes a little time to load, so please be patient! Also, in case you missed it, “This Is Not A Poem,” released a few months ago, is available at This Is [...]

All, I am damn sorry for having been away from NetPoetic.  Damn damn sorry. So I figure it is time for a re-launch.  As part of the re-launch festivities or activities or really to get this site growing and glowing and flowing again, I think we should start with some question/answers play. So starting tomorrow, [...]

The inaugural issue of VLAK will be launched at the St Marks Poetry Project, 131 E. 10th St., New York, on the 27th of September, and at the Prague Microfestival Poetry Series in October. Contributors to VLAK 1.1 include Abigail Child, Holly Tavel, Marjorie Perloff, Alexander Jorgensen, Joshua Cohen, Eileen Myles, Stephanie Barber, John Wilkinson, [...]

“It was too hot. She was struck by an unusual heaving. A sense of irritation gathered round the doors and windows. Margaret reached the small side-entrance. The porter’s answer to the bell. The keen sharp pressure of the knife. She went across and up. Click of machinery.” Continuing the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North [...]

Hi, everyone– It has not been long since the last one, but there’s a new story at webyarns.com… “This Is Not A Poem” is a toy, a game, a language engine, and a poem all at the same time…. The new plaything is at http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com Also, in case you missed it, “My Nervous Breakdown,” released [...]

Postdoctoral researcher in the research project “Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature as Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice” (ELMCIP) to be placed at the School of Planning and Media Design, Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. Reference number: 426-0587-2010 Description The post is dedicated to working for 1 year in the [...]

I had the privilege, with collaborator Mark Jeffery, of participating in the exceedingly rich and diverse marathon-style event Noise!2010 at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in NYC on June 26. I am including here a link to Danny Snelson’s beautifully documented introduction to the poetry component that he curated. In his post on apasic-letters.com, Snelson conceptually situates [...]

Inspired by Netpoetic, I recently started up a group blog called Netartery. Which looks a bit like an earlier project of mine called Webartery. There are only a few posts, so far, to Netartery. They’re by Gregory Whitehead, Andy Campbell, Jhave Johnston, and myself. Currently 13 people have agreed to post at least 6 times [...]