poetry on a computer

[Patrick F. Durgin]

Anarchist poet & winner of the 1999 Tanning Prize (that's $100,000 --
national prize) Jackson Mac Low is now using computerized versions of his
chance-generation procedures, such as Diastext, as part of his overall
process.  An example is http://durationpress.com/kenning/Mac_Low.html

The program, along with many others, is available here
http://www.burningpress.org/toolbox/index.html

The Electronic Poetry Center at UB has some interesting "E-Poetry" links at
http://epc.buffalo.edu/e-poetry/

-----Original Message-----
From: John K. Taber <jktaber at dhc.net>
To: 'lbo_talk' <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Date: Sunday, May 07, 2000 9:57 AM
Subject: poetry on a computer


>JC Helary <helary at eskimo.com> asks:
>Subject: Re: I "LOVE" YOU
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>Do you write poetry on a computer ?
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>Well, people do. As for me, no. As for wojtek, dunno.
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>There is also a body of poetry now on or about computers, like
>Bukowski's poem on his accidental erasure of a poem. He compared
>it to spilling a bottle of good wine or Hemingway's loss of
>his manuscript on a train.
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>There's a bunch more by a number of poets, almost all in favor
>of the computer. I don't remember the poet but I remember the
>line "Green be thy screen!" from monochrome monitor days. On
>the whole poets have been enthusiastic about using computers.
>
>--
>John K. Taber
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