Electronic Literature

 

 

Electronic literature sites and journals

 

Electronic Literature Organization

 

HTLit: Hypertextual Writing and the Future of Reading

 

Cell Stories: short stories delieved to cell phones

 

Drunken Boat: New media arts and literature online journal

 

Summary of material in Drunken Boat

 

A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, Blackwell Press

 

Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature- What Is It?.doc

 

New River Journal

 

Space: Student-run journal with digital productions

 

Blackbird: Student-run literature journal

 

Robert Coover: Cave Writing Workshops

 

MIT OpenCourseWare: Interactive and Non-linear Narrative

 

Networked Performances: blog on digital literature performance

 

Talan Memmott: "Self Portrait(s) As Others"

 

Interview with Talan Memmott about "Self Portrait(s) As Others"

 

J. Yellowlees Douglas: Reading interactive fiction, The New Media Reader

 

 

Digital Poetry

 

Christopher Funkhouser: Digital Poetry

 

Poetry and Visual Culture wiki: Resources on digital poetry

 

Electronic Poetry: Lots of poetry links

 

Thom Swiss PowerPoint presentation on digital poetry, SHARP Conference, Minneapolis, 2007

 

Chris Funkhouser's Digital Poetry course

 

ReadWriteThink: Shape Poems

 

Paul Allison, The Air Smells Like a Football Game

 

Acrostic Poetry

 

Diamante Poetry

 

Letter Poems

 

Shape Poems

 

Automatic Poetry Generator

 

The Internet Poetry Archive

 

Giselle Beigualman, egoscopio

 

Seb Chevrel and Gabe Kean, You and We

 

Billy Collins Action Poetry

 

PennSound: University of Pennsylvania online literature archive of readings of famous authors

 

QuickMuse: shows poets constructing poems in competition with each other

 

Jason Nelson: New Media Art and Poetry site

 

Jason Nelson: e-poetry site

 

Jen Budenski: By What Luck?

 

Online Poetry Classroom: 341 Great Poems to Teach

 

Poetry Express: Poetry writing activities around themes

 

Poets and Writers

 

University of Virginia: online texts (stories, novels, and poems)

 

E-Poets.net (also audio)

 

PBS: Bill Moyers: Fooling with Words (also audio)

 

Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, 2004

 

Poetry 180: A poem a day for American high schools

 

Poetry on the Web

 

Teen Poetry Wiki

 

Upwordspoetry: high school students’ poems

 

Google: online poetry sites

 

PoemsThatGo

 

Her Ways, Korina Jocson, video poem

 

Wikipedia: Exquisite Corpse

 

 

Using Wordle to Create Word Clouds 

 

Wordle: Create word clouds from texts as a form of poetry

 

Wordle of an Edublogger conference, San Antonio, 2008

 

Bob Sprankle: Tutorial on using Wordle

 

Traci Gardner, NCTE InBox: Wordle Word Maps for Fun and Analysis

 

 

Performing Poetry

 

Poetic License (documentary on poetry slams)

 

Oxford University 2009 Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Conference

 

Conducting poetry slams

 

Cable in the Classroom: Digital literature: ideas for performing digital texts

 

 

Digital novels and stories

 

yWriter: word processing software for writing novels

 

Digital Fiction Show

 

InanimateAlice: digital novel

 

DailyLit: Read free books via email or RSS feeds

 

Digital Dime Novels

 

We Tell Stories: Six authors tell six stories

 

The Breathing Wall

 

 

Digital drama and games

 

Facade: A one-act interactive drama

 

Frank Baker: Scriptwriting in the Classroom

 

Kafkamesto: Interactive game based on Kafka's writing

 

 

Digital virtual literary worlds

 

Literary Worlds: virtual literary worlds for specific literary texts

 

 

Online literary texts/literature resources

 

Allen Webb: Literary Archives

 

Lit2go: Lots of audio literature for MP3 players

 

Digital Book Talks: site for providing students with information about literature

 

Poets.org: Mobile poems for downloading to iPhone

 

Blog: Jean Phillipe-Pastor: Literature in a Digital Age

 

Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, free download: a novel about Internet control

 

Language is a Virus: lots of creative writing activities and links

 

Shmoop: Literature: Lots of resources about specific literary texts

 

University of Georgia: online literary texts

 

University of Georgia: lots of literature units for specific online texts

 

U.S. Government: free resources related to literature instruction