Poetry 2.0? “Every word was once a poem” In this so-called information age, we live among language more than ever before. For example, one of the latest fads drawing hype to itself faster than a black hole sucks light is Twitter: a web-based social networking site predicated on “tweets”–brief text messages uploaded to a web site that others subscribe to, follow and read. Thus, the blogging concept of writing for a perceived audience is accelerated to a dizzying pace. All good poems, no matter their style, share this: an enforced attention to language, and some degree of innovation upon it.
I tried Twittering for a day, sending tweets when I changed my activity or mood. Between the web-based, software-based and cell-phone-based options, I was never disconnected from a sense that I could and perhaps should send an update in case someone out there might actually really care about the excruciatingly mundane details of my life. That’s why there will never be a poetry 2.0. Electronic Poetry Center: Sound Poetry. Ernst Jandl – ottos mops – Kostenlos Musik hören bei Last. Directory. Internet Public Library: Pathfinders. This guide is designed for anyone who is looking for poems or their sources.
Both print-based and Web-based sources are included. Internet Sources | Ann Landers and Dear Abby | Searching for Poetry on the Web | Print Resources Internet Sources Poetry is very difficult to find on the web, unless it's old enough to be out of copyright; print sources may be your best bet if you're looking for a specific poem which is fairly recent. The following sites will have at least a representative sample of the works of poets, generally up until the late 19th - early 20th centuries: Bartleby.com: Verse This section of the Bartleby.com site includes the online text of several public-domain poetry anthologies and collections, including The Oxford Book of English Verse, Modern American Poetry , Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. , and many others.
Dear Abby / Ann Landers poems Locating poems which have appeared in Dear Abby or Ann Landers is especially tricky. Print Sources. Association of Poetry Podcasting.