[Newspoetry] call for Newspoetry!

[William Gillespie]

2 months left until we find out whether Newspoetry is Y2K-compliant.
Write 'em while you can! Here's some wigged out notions coming atcha:

> Freewrite a hypertext starting from a news story, having decided
> beforehand a single type of link to use: chronological, referential,
> apparently unrelated...
>
> Take a source text and break it into lines. Add a line between each of
> its lines. Make your lines one font size smaller.
>
> Take a photo from a news source and write your own caption.
>
> Find the same news story in three different news sources. Write a
> stanza for each source.
>
> Write a small song. Write out the chords and also make a simple
> recording.
>
> Take a photo from the newspaper, draw on it, and scan it in.
>                                   or
>
> Make a drawing of a photo from the newspaper, scan it in. Alter it
> using software.
>
> Type a word that is the first word in a sentence. Make each letter a
> link to a word that could be the second word in the sentence. Do the
> same with each second word, and third word, etcetera, until the
> sentences all end. Example:
>                            S -> the bombing
>                           T -> the shooting
>                             O -> taxation
>                              P -> working
>
> Take two headlines the same number of words in length. Make your way
> from one headline to the other by changing one word at a time. Make
> the resulting headlines a linear hypertext such that clicking on one
> takes you to the next. Make the process reverse itself at the end to
> make an endless circular hypertext.
>
> Create a weird table, with lots of rowspan and colspan tags. Make sure
> it's consistent across browsers. Then write a poem with a stanza in
> each cell.
>
> Write a poem that changes as you move the mouse over it.
>
> Use illustrator to make a poem whose text is cut out of an image.
>
> Make a subtraction poem using color.
>
> Write a poem in two columns which share stanzas - a column about the
> cruelty of serbs, a column about the cruelty of nato; a column about
> yeltsin's impeachment, a column about clinton's...
>
> What happens to the same phrase when it is presented in different
> fonts?
>
> Can a font ever have a meaning that isn't a cultural association?
>
> Maybe not, but a line can express a mood. Is it possible to write text
> in a mood that differs sharply from the mood of the lines that compose
> its letters?
>
> What happens when some words are sans-serif?
>
> Write a story about the fall of technology which goes from being
> word-processed to typed to hand-written.
>
> Write using only letters with/without curves or
> vertical/horizontal/diagonal lines
>
> Can different colors change the meanings of words?
>
> Can a gradual change in color reflect a gradual change in tone of a
> story?
>
> Can different colors be used to differentiate different people's
> points of views?
>
> Begin a story in words, end it in pictures.
>
> Write a story where major events are elided and replaced by an image.
>
> Write a story with images that tell another story.
>
> Write a concrete novel.
>
> Write a story with overwrought descriptions paired with mundane
> images.
>
> Write a poem where the stanzas are replaced automatically, with the
> speed at which they are replaced varying according to mood.
>
> Write a stanza which rearranges itself.
>
> Begin a story in words, end it in sounds.
>
> Write a story where major events are elided and replaced by a sound
>
> Write a story with sounds that tell another story.
>
> Write a story with overwrought descriptions paired with mundane
> sounds.
>
> Make a newspoem with only images and sound.
>
> Write a hypertext where links fill in missing portions, making the
> story longer. The reader starts with a short short. After clicking on
> every link they have a novel. The short short is contained within the
> novel and the...
>
> On a really large page, tell a story in short stanzas, stanzas moving
> from right to left.
>
> Make a cento of gorgeous sentences from online sources.
>
> Make a form with images and no text - compose a poem based on these
> responses.
>
> Handwrite a newspoem.
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