Digital Poetry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium
Digital Poetry at the Beginning of the Third Millennium

Summary/Abstract: The term “digital poetry” covers a wide range of poetry from simple electronic mimicries of printed texts on the internet to experimental and playful language art, involving programming, multimedia or animation. In this essay, I restrict myself to the digital poetry created around the beginning of the third millennium, which exposes, and sometimes subverts the various binary oppositions that support the reader’s dominant ways of thinking, making possible a richness of reading and getting “completed” only in the process of their performance. These works are meant to affect the reader’s non-virtual world, in order to give him a deeper understanding of life, of processes. But in the end, what else does poetry do but alienate clichés?

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