I just came across an online paper that looks fascinating and covers a subject I’d not yet considered at any great length. It’s about concrete poetry, as you might guess from its title, “Concrete Poetry – A World View“. It was written by somebody named Mary Ellen Solt and was published in 1968 by Indiana University Press. I love wacky sixties writings on art and literature. Not that this is necessarily wacky. But I hope so! 
I like the dynamic words of simply7 by Deena Larsen. It’s billed as a Flash treatise on the nature of language in electronic poetry. The words in this piece reflect words more closely to the way they behave in our minds than we are used to seeing when we read a text. Words don’t hold still in our minds, as they do on a printed page. Words don’t come in only one version in our minds; we often go through multiple possible speeches or drafts in our minds, simultaneously and quickly. We often think of several words that could do, but we must choose only one to fill its slot in a sentence. We sometimes have words behind words in our minds, one word we think behind the word we put out front, in public. Words in simply7 reflect all this.
Now you can make your spam into a work of art. Forward a spam email to spam@spamrecycling.com. You’ll receive a link to your personal spam recycling Flash web app. You can get as artistic as you want. When you’re satisfied with the way it looks, you can have the spam recycler email a screenshot to you. According to the Quasimondo blog, it’s a test of the Flash 8 BitMapExporter class. Well, it’s a very creative test.
