Issue on digital poetry from Journal of Electronic Publishing. Author: Jim Andrews.
Subject: CFP: Journal of Electronic Publishing (Digital Poetics/Poetries). I’m writing today in my capacity as guest editor for The Journal of Electronic Publishing, which has been a pioneer in responding critically to digital technologies’ impact on “publishing” as both a notion and a semiotic distribution system since 1995 (before there was even a google to google-sculpt with!). JEP is published by the Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO), a unit of the University of Michigan Library, which is committed to designing affordable and sustainable publishing solutions in the “network era” (with a serious commitment to open-access publishing). JEP’s long-time editor, Judith Axel Turner, is retiring, and I have been asked to curate one of several issues to be published in the interim before a new editor-in-chief is appointed. Given my interests and background, I’ve chosen to put together an issue broadly dedicated to digital poetry publishing. I’m hoping you might be interested in contributing an article. This issue will bring together many distinct but related conversations concerning relationships between poetry and the wide array of digital prostheses that are shaping and have shaped 21st Century poetics. I’m also hoping this issue will bring the pertinent conversations to the attention of new audiences. Submission deadline is April 15, 2011. A short (but not exhaustive) list of areas of focus for this issue includes: 1. The status of the digital poetry “utopia.” With approximately ten years of broadband-living now behind us, are we in a position to reassess (perhaps reaffirm) the early promise of digital media for poetry and poetics? Or, from a more phenomenological angle… has reading without paper changed, and/or is it still changing, the experience of poetry? So what? 2. How has digital poetry publishing impacted poetry pedagogy (in either creative writing or more traditional study)? 3. How has digital publishing influenced or altered the notion of what a poetry “book” is or should be? How has is changed or not changed the economics of poetry book publication? How has is changed or not changed the “cultural capital” attached to such publication? 4. Digital media and poetry community/communities. The social aspects (especially as market potential) of digital networking have been discussed ad nauseam for several years. Blogs. Facebook. Etc. Still, poetry’s coterieism has an ancient provenance. What unique problems or benefits have come—or are coming—for poetry with the on-going acceleration of electronic interconnection? 5. Media/Form/Content. How is the stuff of digital media blending with the stuff of poetry? Immediately, I’m thinking of the way Flarf takes algorithmic formal modeling and raw textual content from various digital locations to make something new, to reflects on its own parts, and also reflect outward on the broader social, political, and economic circumstances that generate and shape the sources. But I’m using Flarf here as shorthand for many developments where the product and process of digital publishing blur in significant ways. more... http://netartery.vispo.com/?p=543 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
