Poetry and Poetics

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Flash Polaroids (2004-ongoing)

Turbulence.org is now hosting a selection of the Flash Polaroids, so titled as they are Flash programs that utilize photographs I took with my cheap digital camera. Kind of like short videos that pull images from a database and never appear the same way twice.


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Free Space Comix II (2004-ongoing)

The second incarnation of my blog -- streamlined and elegant, with a new mascot, the lovable Ague. The first incarnation of Free Space Comix (2002-2004) can be found here


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/UBU Editions (2003-ongoing)

/ubu ("slash ubu") is a new series that I edit at ubu.com, featuring works by authors such as Kevin Davies, Caroline Bergvall, Gustave Morin, Darren Wershler-Henry, Ron Silliman, Jean Day, Mac Wellman, Hannah Weiner and many, many others.


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Circulars (2002-2003)

My anti-war blog, which has been dormant since, well, the war. A repository of internet protest art, writings by poets during the period of the protest marches, and anything else you can think of.


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The Vaneigem Series (2002)

Detournements of New York Times articles using the text of Roaul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life.


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The Truth Interview, with Kim Rosenfield (2002)

Part interview, part portal, and all poetry, the "Truth Interview" was commissioned for the website of feminist poetics How2. Features various settings of Rosenfield's sequence "Verbali" -- click through all the advertisements to see it all.


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Arras E-books (2001-ongoing)

Includes: two issues of Arras magazine, a poetry journal I started in 1994 that only ran to three issues; the entire run of Jennifer Moxley's The Impercipient; POLI SCI: the political science writing by Bruce Andrews; Steve Evans' Notes to Poetry; and Object 9, an anthology of poetry edited by Robert Fitterman


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Eunoia: Chapter E (2001)

This is a Flash setting I did for the Coach House Books website of chapter e. The entire book -- the top selling book of poetry in Canadian history -- can be found here.


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The Inkblot Record (2001)

A shockwave setting of the entirety of Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record, which augments the text with a dynamically generated inkblot that plays with your signs as you scan the signifiers. Also appears at Coach House Books.


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The Dreamlife of Letters (2000)

Long Flash animation poem in the tradition of the Brazilian concretists and some of the wackiness of Isidore Isou, with twist of avant-feminist lime.


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Hokusai Express, and other works (2000)

Interactive digital "paintings" created in Director -- create great art in your spare time, even with the window running behind your word processor or whatever other program you are tied to at work.


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Rational Geomancy (1999)

Quite literally a page out of the book of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, a shockwave interactive animation that turns the book into a geography reminiscent of Lang's Metropolis, or at least that's my idea.


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Chapbook Settings (1999)

Three HTML settings: The White Wish by Andrea Brady; Selections from Spleen by Nicholas Moore, satiric translations of the same Baudelaire poem, and Selections from Revolution of the Word by Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, an eccentric American modernist whose style anticipates Language poetry.

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The Overtures of Holograms: Poems of Roger Pellett (1998)

A brief foray into the adventure of a poetry "avatar," and also a mischievous take on the poetics of a certain idiosyncratic group of English poets, ricocheting back into a parody of the "plain style" of Robert Creeley.

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The Naif and the Bluebells (1998)

A longish html/java/javascript poem that tends to give some browsers a hard time. An early piece, some of which has been recycled for "The Truth Interview."


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Alpha Betty's Chronicles (1998)

I ran a sequence of my poems through a C++ program that added HTML tagging according to certain simple algorithms. My Rabelasian answer to the white space of Mallarmé. You can also see Pax Tropicana and What I.


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Dot-matrix Concrete (1994)

Very early ventures into graphic poetry, created on a Mac SE with the long-defunct Macdraw program: discoteque, dominie, feast, folk poetry, geneva, heritage, it tells me something, martenot, object, old medicine chest.