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2022

"The Writer's Guide to Common Grammar" (an HTML guide poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/the-writers-guide-to-common-grammar.html
Why it's an Internet poem: online guides are full of links; what links, what doesn't?

"3 Poems About Spirit Guides" (an HTML poem)  
https://www.marymccray.com/3-spirit-guides.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: silly, late-1990s background effects and readability.

"Love Is Like Chopping Wood"
https://www.marymccray.com/loveislikechoppingwood.html
Why it's an Internet poem: immediacy in publishing.

"Life Tests Me At My Weakest Points" (a quiz poem) * TILT *
https://www.marymccray.com/lifetestsmeatmyweakestpoints.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: offline at the moment (which makes it Internet right there) but officially its interactivity.

"Three Fading Haiku" (an animated HTML poem) 
https://www.marymccray.com/fading/fading-haiku.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: word animation.

"When" (an HTML poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/when.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: scheduled, irregular availability.

2021

"The Electrical Dictionary of Melancholy Absolutes" (an HTML poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/the-electrical-dictionary-of-melancholy-absolutes.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: links, ongoing expansion, hidden HTML.

"La Tierra de los Niños Pequeños" (an HTML poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/pequenos.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: has a note feature.

"A Screen of Pins" (a video poem)
https://cherscholar.typepad.com/screen-of-pins/screen-of-pins.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: musical cacophony of video embeds, animations.

"Digital Poetry in 2021: Where We Can Go…" (an essay)
https://www.marymccray.com/digital-poetry-in-2021-where-we-can-go.html

"What Kind of Trouble? (an HTML poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/what-kind-of-trouble/page-one.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: interlinked verses across multiple pages.

"Losing Sleep" (an Oura Ring poem) 
https://www.marymccray.com/losing-sleep/index.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: requirement of cutting-and-pasting translations of Arabic.

"Draw Me a Diagram" (an image with no alt tag)
https://www.marymccray.com/draw-me-a-diagram.html
Why it's an Internet poem: this one probably does not qualify in hindsight. :-/

"The Marc Antony & Cleopatra Drinking Club" (an HTML Choose-Your-Own-Adventure)
(Fixes made on 16 December 2021)
https://www.marymccray.com/cleopatra-drinking-club/index.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: embedded video, hidden video, interactivity.

 

2020

"Fingertips" (a PowerPoint Covid Poem with Kalisha Weidemann)
https://www.marymccray.com/fingerprints-2020.pdf
Why it's an Internet poem: distribution of pdf PowerPoints online, might not qualify in hindsight.

Down the Light, Down the Bed" (an HTML Poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/bonnie-bottle.html
Why it's an Internet poem: rollover hidden text.

"Formalities" (an HTML Poem)
(Fixes made on 23 December 2021)
https://www.marymccray.com/formalities.html
Why it's an Internet poem: interactivity, form functionality.

"Hidden Formations" (an HTML Poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/hidden-formations.html
Why it's an Internet poem: only one stanza viewable at a time/drop-down form functionality.

"Dodging" (an HTML Poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/dodging.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: online reading ad dodging.

"Ghost Play" (an HTML Poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/ghostplay.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: rollover hidden text.

"Media Map Confessions I & II" (a Floor Plan poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/media-map-confessions.htm
Why it's an Internet poem: honestly I don't know anymore...printing constraints?


2019

Podcast
Creating Digital Literature (with Brian Hudson)
http://www.briankhudson.com/interview-about-the-creative-process-with-nerdia/

"For Whom the Bells Troll" (a Twitter Poem)
https://twitter.com/BellsTroll
Why it's an Internet poem: a poem of Tweets.

Archived version: https://www.marymccray.com/bell-trolls.html
Planning the poem: https://digital-lit-reviews.blogspot.com/2019/04/project-planning-twitter-poem.html

Bells

2016

Video: Making NaPoWriMo Poems
After Tim Tsang's #HYPERTEXTEDIT project.
Why it's an Internet poem: video of writing.

"Stacks" (YouTube)

Hypertextedit

"Ideologies" (YouTube)
Hypertextedit

2013

The Sonny & Cher Mesostic
Why it's an Internet poem: simply uses an online tool.
Creation story (2013) I Found Some Blog
Source material: videos (compiled 2013) I Found Some Blog
Source material: lyrics (compiled 2013) I Found Some Blog
Result poem: "Posing at Artifice"(2013) I Found Some Blog

Mescher

2012

Video: Poets in Real Life: Job Interview (YouTube)
Animated using xtranormal.

Job

1996-2007

Hypertext Narratives
Choose Your Own Celebrity Adventures (1996-2007) Ape Culture
Sonny Bono, Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart by me.
Apelogo

2012

Audio Readings from Why Photographers Commit Suicide

 "Imagine Mars"
recorded by Recorder App on May 30, 2013

Imagine-Mars-Mary-McCray-30May2013


"Traveler, Beware"
recorded by Session Smart Recorder App on May 30, 2013

Traveler-Beware-Mary-McCray-30May2013


"All of a Sudden"
recorded by Recorder App on May 30, 2013

All-of-a-Sudden-Mary-McCray-30May2013


"Maribel, Crossing"
recorded by Session Smart Recorder App on May 30, 2013

Maribel-Crossing-Mary-McCray-30May2013


"Monogamous Carbon: A Classified Ad"
recorded by Session Smart Recorder App on May 30, 2013

Monogamous-Carbon-Mary-McCray-30May2013

 

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