On Saturday, January 31, 2015, I ♥ E-Poetry will be present at the Feria Internacional del Libro Eugenio María de Hostos. Visit our table for demonstrations of digital literature and poetry, a new literary genre that explores the expressive potential of language in digital environments. Here are some examples of digital literature.

What is I ♥ E-Poetry?

This project is designed as an encyclopedic resource on e-poetry, with concise entries that provide poetic, technological, and theoretical contexts, close readings of the poems, and some strategies for readers to engage with the work. The goal is to broaden the audience for electronic literature, both within and beyond the academic world. To extend this potential audience, the blog shares its content through Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

The Word in Motion:

  • Seattle Drift - This poem wants to be freed from the rules of the page that discipline it and force it to be traditional.
  • Bembo's Zoo - Visit a zoo where words transform into animals.
  • Strings - Italic words stretch and turn into other words to form playful poems.
  • Word Crimes - A video full of words that dance to the beat of a parody of a catchy song.

Cinematic Experiences:

  • Bust Down the Doors! - A violent scene described again and again surprises us with its shifts in perspective.
  • Project for Tachistoscope - This hypnotic work narrates the story of a bottomless pit in the middle of the United States.

Interactive Comics:

  • A Duck Has An Adventure - This comic lets you explore many alternate stories in the life and adventures of a duck.
  • Hobo Lobo of Hamelin - This comic presents the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, but with a hobo wolf and a psychotic mayor.

Literary Games:

  • The Flat - You have two minutes to discover what happened in this apartment before something terrifying comes for you.
  • Game, Game, Game and again Game - A fun platform game in which you traverse crazy and poetic spaces.

Generated Works:

Artistic Twitter Bots:

  • Glitch [Meta] - The witticisms tweeted by this cat come from comments people make about their cats on Twitter.
  • HaikuD2 - This bot detects tweets that can be cut into the form of a haiku (a poem of 5, 7, 5 syllables) and reveals them as poems.

Multimedia Works:

  • Memory - This fun poem by a Puerto Rican poet is written with memes and about memes.
  • When I Was President - This dictatorial president takes absurd and absurdly effective measures during his short presidency.
  • Nio - This musical and poetic work is a tool for playing with sounds, new letters, and musical phrases.