Week 13: Meaningful Interactivity – The Materials of Poetry

Tuesday, November 12

In class
- Discussion of assigned e-poems:
  - Seattle Drift by Jim Andrews
  - Birds Singing other Birds’ Songs by Maria Mencia
  - Cruising by Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar
  - Faith by Robert Kendall
  - “Ah” by K. Michel and Dirk Vis
  - Sooth by David Jhave Johnston
  - “Thoughts Go” by David Knoebel
Assignment
- Read the I ♥︎ E-Poetry entries and the following works. You will need Firefox and the Flash player to read some of these e-poems.
  - “Fitting the Pattern” and/or “Rememori” by Christine Wilks
  - “Game, Game, Game, and Again Game” and/or “The Required Field” by Jason Nelson
  - “The Lord’s Prayer” and/or “Protect the Poet” by Alan Bigelow
  - “The Dead Tower” and/or “Aphiddd” by Andy Campbell
- Write a 1-paragraph analysis of the impact of interactivity and interface on your experience 0f two of the assigned poems. How are these meaningful interactions?

Thursday, November 14

In class
- Discussion of assigned e-poems:
- - “Fitting the Pattern” and/or “Rememori” by Christine Wilks
  - “Game, Game, Game, and Again Game” and/or “The Required Field” by Jason Nelson
  - “The Lord’s Prayer” and/or “Protect the Poet” by Alan Bigelow
  - “The Dead Tower” and/or “Aphiddd” by Andy Campbell
Assignment
- Read the following works, and/or their documentation, if you can’t experience them in an iOS device:
  - “Abra” by Kate Durbin, Amaranth Borsuk, and Ian Hatcher
  - “abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”, “Konsonant”, “Unicode Infinite”, and “Tiny Poems” by Jörg Piringer (explore his page and download from the App Store)
  - “The PoEMM Cycle” by Jason Edward Lewis and Bruno Nadeau
- Write a 1-paragraph analysis of the impact of touchscreen interfaces on your experience 0f two of the assigned poems. How are these meaningful interactions?

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.

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