Visual poetry is a combination—in a wide variety of ways—with the visual and with words, or letters in some cases. I first encountered this type of experimental writing form in college in a new media poetry class. I remember being attracted to the idea since I’m a visual person. But as much as I appreciate [...]

Yes, indeed. More poetry today. But mostly this post is about seeing things in a new way, about how constraint can bring about beautiful, delightful, strange and awesome things—how without these constraints, these things might come into being. If you have anything to do with code, you might have heard the statement: Code is poetry. [...]

More amazing experimental poetry stuff this week (next week I’ll try to feature something other than poetry but I adore poetry so I’m not promising anything). Thanks to @figmentspot on Twitter (thank you, thank you) I discovered these wonderful food poems by Anneliesz (she’s on Twitter too: @anneliesz). She writes poems and pairs them with [...]

Think about the gush of Facebook status updates you see when you visit the site. Could you find poetry (something of aesthetic or other value) within the words as they pile upon one another? As technology weaves itself deeper into our lives, how will it continue to affect our writing? The popularity of short fiction [...]

Around my feet, the fall leaves fluttered like moths with new wings. The wind danced along my shoulders, inviting me to join in its trance. And the sun pierced through the leaves above me and played on my eyelashes in lucid, spring-like colors: lime green, baby yellow, popsicle red and white, clean as fresh snow [...]

I completely love these. Since I discovered them a few days ago, I can’t stop watching them. They only last a few minutes, but then I watch them again. Or I choose another one. The combination of such wonderful words and animation is stunning. Some of them made me smile, think deeper, or shocked me [...]

Experimental Friday focuses on experimental writing projects, including digital writing, new media projects and other writing that goes beyond the book, and beyond the expected. Particularly projects based in the United States, but not exclusively. – Are you in New York City? If so, you might notice something new hanging on the light poles as [...]

Word Zeal has a new series called Experimental Friday, which will focus on experimental writing projects. Perhaps digital writing, new media projects and other writing that goes beyond the book. – Luminous Airplanes is a new novel and a web-based, hypertext literary project by Paul La Farge, an experimental writer living in New York. If [...]