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To: Father Terrence who wrote (36128)	4/27/1999 10:42:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hmm...The term "kinetic poetry" is generally used to describe poetry that is literally in motion on the computer screen. Let's say that the text of the poem scrolls down on one side of the screen, while various images are displayed on the other side. Or the text itself breaks up, rearranges itself, turns different colors, & etc. Or whatever. But your little...er, compositions....don't move at all. Do you perhaps have in mind computer-modulated poetry, which involves the use of a software program that makes it possible to generate new texts from originals fed into the program? I have never personally seen any examples of this, but I understand that the text is supposed to change every time you look at it...Interesting concept. Or do you have in mind some other variety of interactive, self-generating technique? In any event, the point of all these methods of composing poetry and transmitting it via the net is to win the reader over to the idea of reading poetry on the computer screen. For the most part, readers prefer to curl up with a book of poetry in a nice comfortable easy chair, so you have to present the poetry in a way that they can't get from an ordinary book (or print out from their computer printer). The catch is, of course, that what you feed into your computer has to be poetry in the first place. Otherwise what comes out of the computer is not going to be poetry either. So, is this a put-on, or what? jbe