Poetry and Digital Literature
I feel like there are a number of ways in which the Digital Humanities could impact my research and creative writing. However, for the sake of brevity (and sanity), I’ll focus on one. Because I both study and write poetry, I’m particularly interested in how the interactive elements of digital literature formats could be applied to this area. One idea I had was the possibility of creating a “Found Poem Workbook” that would allow readers/users to produce their own poetry from pieces of someone else’s work. For example, one “page” might contain all the words from a William Carlos Williams poem, arranged in order of frequency. The reader/user would then be able to drag and drop the words to create their own poem. It might also be interesting to color-code each word so that each new poem created by a reader/user has a different and prominent visual “signature.” I think this might be an interesting way to create interactive poetry anthologies, too.
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