This article offers two approaches to the question of "invisible punctuation," theoretical and critical. The first is a taxonomy of modes of punctuational invisibility, identifying "denial, repression, habituation, error" and "absence." Each is briefly discussed and some relations with technologies of reading are considered. The second considers…

States that new media poetry integrates characteristics of the new media in the theoretical basis of its poetics. Outlines its basis and shows how it affects poetic and verbal conventions, particularly with respect to the constitution of texts and the roles of author and reader, and with regard to its implications for views on language. (PA)

Provides an overview of 25 years of work, beginning with an analysis of the difficulties of juxtaposition for the poet. Illustrates diagram syntax notation and provides a method for juxtapositions to be included in larger structures. States that juxtaposition itself is achieved through an interactive device called a simultaneity. (PA)

Analyzes the verse of the French poets Stephane Mallarme and Guillaume Apollinaire, contrasting their purposes in suppressing normal punctuation in their work. (MM)

Presents a manifesto proposing the creation of a new kind of poetry--virtual poetry--that exists only in electronic space and computer networks. States that this new poetry is interactive, animated, hyper-linked, and navigational. (PA)

States that the application of cybertextual technologies to experimental poetics is the context for this brief exposition of machine modulated literary work. Raises issues crucial to the work described here--the role of (literary) text in cyberspace; silent reading in new visible language media; and the confusions of computer as medium. (PA)

Discusses a new poetic language invented in 1983 based on innovative use of the holographic medium. Defines what a holopoem is and explains the fundamental concepts of holopoetics. Introduces theoretical principles that address the new readerly experience created by the holotext. Provides a descriptive list of all holopoems created to date. (PA)

Highlights points of convergence between the Sanskrit citrakavyas and pattern poetry. (FL)

Investigates the Weber work with regard to the pattern poems it contains. (FL)

Discusses the theoretical approach to videopoetry. States that the concept of videopoetry (as distinct from videoart) arose in 1968 from experimenting with video for creative and poetic production using verbal and nonverbal signs. Concludes that videopoetry is a challenge for both poets and readers. (PA)

Describes a personal involvement with digital media and the origins of the conception of the "diagrammatic" poem. Reflects on what is considered to be a poem in tune with today's computerized society. (PA)

Presents an annotated bibliography of websites containing book reviews and other sites dealing with electronic poetry, hyperfiction, hypertext studies, poets' sites, and sites discussing history of new media poetry. (PA)

Traces the history of the labyrinth poem from the time of Augustus Caesar. (FL)

Notes that in China shaped poetry is closely linked with palindromes. Traces the history of the genre and presents examples of such poetry in translation. Offers remarks on the techniques of "deciphering" patterned poems. (FL)

Examines the relationship of concrete poetry to "abstract" poetry (so labeled because its circular semantic play interferes with the image-forming aspect of representation). Analyzes the interrelations of these two types of poetry in the context of a poetic tradition centered in France. Asserts that both types aim to eradicate differences between…