Radical Books of 2012 (1/7)
The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail Gregory Sherl Mud Lucious Press · 65 pages Consciousness wobbles between the “real world” of Barry Manilow concerts, streetscapes that look like Frogger, and...
View ArticleFlores on Sea and Spar Between
Leonardo Flores has posted a nice discussion of Sea and Spar Between (by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland) on his blog, I ♥ E-Poetry.
View ArticleRadical Books of 2012 (4/7)
I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, and Vanessa Place Les Figues · 455 pages Community Reviews (showing 1-30 of 96) filter |...
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Cutting Time with a Knife Michael Leong Black Square Editions · 124 pages When randomness is employed in poetics and succeeds, it is because of how it plays within regularity of different sorts. This...
View ArticleCode, Poetry Intersect in a Corner
In this episode of Poetry Corner with Guido, Guido the python shares a Gertrude Stein poem titled Sacred Emily. Jared Nielsen, thanks to his schooling in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, his...
View ArticleThe Tale of the MLA E-Lit Exhibit, Reading
Kathi Inman Berens storified some nice media elements relating to the 2013 electronic literature exhibit and reading at the MLA Convention.
View ArticleChercher le Text Call for Artistic Works
Here is the call for artistic proposals for the ELO 2013 “Chercher le Text” in Paris! The “chercher le texte” event deals with literary issues and text-oriented multimedia practices on digital devices:...
View ArticleJust Posted, Computational, Conceptual
Now online: “The First M Numbers Classified in Alphabetical Order.” This was my New Year’s poem for 2013. It is based on Claude Closky’s 1989 “Les 1000 premiers nombres classés par ordre alphabétique”...
View ArticleAn Auto-Interview about All the Way for the Win
Poet Michael Leong “tagged” me, not by spray-painting me or by assigning me a folksonomical string, but by sending me the following template of interview questions. This process is part of the project...
View ArticleHow to Buy Some of My Most Obscure Books
2002: A Palindrome Story By Nick Montfort and William Gillespie. Illustrated by Shelley Jackson. Designed by Ingrid Ankerson. (24 pp., acknowledged by the Oulipo as the longest literary palindrome.)...
View ArticleThe Winter Anthology is Out
This winter’s Winter Anthology, a collection of contemporary literature informed by history and older art, 21st century science and philosophy, and the ending of print culture, is now out. This is...
View ArticleHouse of Leaves of Grass
What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn’t reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky. O HYMEN! O hymenee! Why do you tantalize me thus? O...
View ArticleTrope Tank Annual Report 2012-2013
I direct a lab at MIT called The Trope Tank. This is a lab for research, teaching, and creative production, located in building 14 (where the Hayden Library is also housed), in room 14N-233. Its...
View Article&NOW AWARDS 2
Although the &NOW AWARDS 2: The Best Innovative Writing may appear at first to be an HTML character entity reference, it’s actually a new book. Arranged back-to-back like Chow Yun-Fat and Danny...
View ArticleThe Deletionist
I’m pleased to announce the release of a project that I’ve been working on with Amaranth Borsuk and Jesper Juul for the past two years: The Deletionist. This is a bookmarklet (easily added to the...
View ArticleAn Occasional Digital Poem
After releasing The Deletionist, a project that three collaborators started two years ago, I thought it would be nice to do something smaller-scale – an occasional poem (in HTML and JavaScript) that...
View ArticleHoc Opus, Hic Labor Est
The Internent isn’t just the Web; it’s also telnet, Gopher, email … and the Worl. Here are 500 pages of the Worl that I printed out and mailed today to Kenneth Goldsmith’s exhibit, Printing Out the...
View Articlefrom modernist master
Here’s one of many amazing pages on, not the World Wide Web, but The Worl: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/guide/236558 (You need to install and activate The Deletionist to see it correctly…)
View ArticleOr set upon a golden bough to tweet
Mark Sample’s Twitter bots; currently, there are eleven. Darius Kazemi’s Twitter bots; presently, six. The classic “Horse ebooks,” once out of nature.
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