creative writing

By Patricia Tomaszek, 4 May, 2012
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This interview appeared alongside three works by Jason Nelson in Cordite's Electronica issue, giving insight into Nelson's creative practices and digital poetry.

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Poetry has a long tradition of using the poetic form to drive, or serve as the engine, of the poem. Historically as new ideas, technologies and cultural trends arrived, poets used them as poetic interfaces. Digital poetry is simply an extension of that long history, using the various possibilities of the computer to build interfaces.

Every environment/machine/structure/poem ever created is governed to some extent by its uses of and reliance on limiting factors. I see those constraints as opportunities in the creating a digital poem, they are tools and techniques for engaging with the text/media and whatever audience comes along.

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Scott Rettberg's Spring 2004 Hypertext course at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The course was part of an early comprehensive New Media Studies track within the Literature Program. The hypertext course was both a literature and writing course. Students dealt with classic hypertext fictions in the context of literary postmodernism, learned about hypertext theory, and wrote hypertext fiction using both Storyspace and HTML.