CyberFrequencies: Poetry's in Motion

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As text shrinks to tweet-sized bytes, poets have taking their art--in all its brief beauty--to the web. Tao Lin turns instant messenger conversations into dystopian lyrics. Katie Peterson tweets "to frame her soul." But does this poetic populism cheapen the art? Local poet and programmer Robert Peake joins the discussion as the writers parse the meaning of "poetry" in today's media-saturated environment.

You can find videos, readings, and blog posts about the new wave of cyber poetry at CyberFrequencies.com.

Also, check out John's nephew's twitter posts below.


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Mark Fullmer

11 months, 4 weeks ago

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This is eerily similar to my latestmicropoetry project, "TWEET, TWEET," though done with a wink-wink flarf poetry flare. I feel slightly creatively emasculated, but only slightly.

Watch "TWEET, TWEET: a mysticotelegraphic fistbump panegyric to the american open road odyssey" below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pdWdul3Q7E

--Mark Fullmer

John Rabe

11 months, 4 weeks ago

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Dear Mark,

It's not even slightly similar, except for the typeface.

Yours includes original writing, production values, an apparent plot, and a shirtless scene.

Mine has music (from a Phil Parlapiano CD), a cute kid in a Little league uniform, and a samurai eviscerating his foe. "Stupid Rain" has not even received as many hits as "Making Oatmeal the Off-Ramp Way."

I made mine in an afternoon with stolen images; you made yours over the course of days and possibly weeks. Maybe months, I don't know.

Consider your masculinity restored (WAND WAVED).

This is not to say that I relinquish my claim on producing the FIRST videographic treatment of Tweets, but the first movie ever made -- a guy sneezing -- is not better than the The Godfather.

-- John Rabe

melanie

11 months, 3 weeks ago

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this is about mee. my life is a movie. and lil wayne and nikki lawinsky are my parents.

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