Hypertexts, e-poetry, and netcessary* literature
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PRETTY COOL POETRY THING is really all you need to see. It's so good.
Annie Abrahams: Wishes
Atomic Antelope and Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland iPad app
ARTE Experience: Type:Rider (inexpensive ios game)
Avoision: Desire Bot
Caroline Bergvall: Noþ[thorn]ing
Natalie Bookchin: The Intruder
Amaranth Borsuk: Abra (free ios app with Ian Hatcher), The Deletionist, Rainbot
Todd Boss and Angela Kassube: Motion Poems (short films of poems by Robert Bly, Jane Hirschfield, and others)
Aaron Cohick: Floating / Days
Liza Daly: Harmonia
William Gibson: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)
Peter Howard: Midwinter Fair (plain and simple hypertext)
Daniel C. Howe and Aya Karpinska: No Time Machine
Michael Joyce, afternoon: a story (information on the first hypertext novel)
Luers / Smith / Dean Novelling ("recombinant digital novel that employs text, video and sound")
Taylor Mali: Killing the Speech (text/film/rant/comedy)
Tim Minchin: Storm (animated film)
Nick Monfort, Taroko Gorge
Juhani Paaso Story of the Lost Dot (free Alice in Wonderland game)
Claudia Rankine and John Lucas: Situations (one example, search YouTube for more)
Ricepirate: DotDotDot (animation of a voicetrack of a review of a game)
Geoff Ryman: 253: a novel for the internet in seven cars and a crash (1990s hypertext novel)
Brian Kim Stefans: The Dreamlife of Letters
Philipp Stollenmayer: Supertype (inexpensive ios game)
Stephanie Strickland and Ian Hatcher: House of Trust (generative poem)
Dan Waber: Strings
Nick Walton: AI Dungeon
Bryan Thao Worra, The Dream Highway of Ms. Mannivongsa, "experimental surreal choose-your-own-adventure" version "drawing on traditional Lao and Southeast Asian mythology and legends, pop culture, and more."
See also:
The Electronic Poetry Center
The
Shape of a Box (literary magazine of poetry videos)
Twitter literary magazines: Baby Trotsky, Form.Reborn, Outshine
Perhaps related in some way to digital literature, perhaps not: altered books / book-related-art by various book artists, Thomas Allen, Ellie Brown, Brian Dettmer, Zach Gage, Guy Laramie, Lori Nix, Robert The, Miriam Schaer, and Tona Wilson. Books that destroy themselves: Zach Gage's Antagonistic Books: Curiosity; self-blackening book by Camille Leproust and Andres Ayerbe.
Databases and lists of online magazines
Poets and Writers lit mags database, http://www.pw.org/literary_magazines (free)
Duotrope's Digest, http://www.duotrope.com/index.aspx
(free trial, monthly fee)
Web Del Sol's top-fifty list, http://webdelsol.com/index-new-magazines2.htm
*Netcessary literature is literature for which the internet is necessary. It is related to, but distinct from, flarf. I, Jessy Randall, invented the term in 2001 (see left-hand column of this page). It has not entered the lexicon.
