I have created more than 25 web sites, blogs, groups, and other online networks since 1999. For the last 5 years, I have maintained a blog that documents my professional work, including most of the blogs for my courses. I use Facebook to stay in touch with friends and family, sharing elements exclusively from my personal life. In addition to my dissertation, articles, and presentations, I have embarked on a search for my artistic voice as a scholar of digital literature. I use Twitter to maintain connections with my colleagues in the digital humanities and electronic literature communities. I read, bookmark, retweet, share, and occasionally formulate a response or comment, but I do not feel the impact of my digital presence. My father used to say that one should not speak unless there is something to contribute. Because of that, I have generally been quiet: reading, listening, learning. Today it occurred to me: I know what I can contribute. I will read an electronic poem every day, and I will write a brief reaction to it in approximately 100 words. Every day. I will start with those found in the Electronic Literature Collections, then the Electronic Poetry Center, or the Electronic Literature Directory, or the ELMCIP Knowledge Base, or electronic poetry journals, or individual websites. Of course, there is enough electronic poetry to read and contemplate for a long time. If this blog has the potential to foster poetic development through digital media or to provoke critical and creative thinking, then fantastic. If it interests you, feel free to follow my blog, subscribe, like, retweet, share, bookmark, whatever you like. If not, no problem at all. It will serve me as an annotated bibliography of everything that I find interesting within the field of electronic poetry. And that alone will make all my time and effort worthwhile. I eagerly look forward to such a challenge. Cheers!
Translated by: Desireé Soltero, Alanis Font and Julianna Canabal-Rodríguez