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required readings:

     Writing for the New Millenium, Robert Kendall

     A Subjective Chronology of Literary Hypertext, Stuart Moulthrop

     What Is Hypertext? Sunah Cherwin

     Attention Poets!! Robert Kendall

     Fibonacci's Daughter, M. D. Coverley (also available at The New River)

     afternoon, a story, Michael Joyce

     Califia, M.D. Coverley (Califia is available from Eastgate for $25.00. Click here to order.)

     Chasing Our Tails, Mark Bernstein

     Hypertext Link Structure Models, Nick Traenkner

     Hypertext Gardens, Mark Bernstein

suggested readings:

     Twelve Blue, Michael Joyce
       and Greg Ulmer's 1997 response to that text

     Is Hypertext Dead?, a trAce list discussion

    ink.ubation salon, online supplement to the keynote presentations and performances at the trAce "Incubation" conference from July 10-12, 2000; a digital salon curated by Internet artist and writer Mark Amerika.

online sources of readings:

    BeeHive, hypertext hypermedia literary journal

    Big Bridge, a webzine of poetry

    Bold Type, an online literary magazine

    Cauldron and Net, a journal of the arts and new media

    Conspire, quarterly literary journal committed to furthering excellence in Internet literary publishing; looking for well crafted poetry & prose.

    Cortland Review, online literary magazine in ReadAudio

    Missouri Review, samples the highlights of the print journal

    Mudlark, an electronic journal of poetry and poetics

    PaperBrainPress, a chapbook series, interested in works which explore, either formally or as subject, the intersections of digital and paper composition and publication.

     Poems that Go, created to unite words, design, music and motion and to celebrate poetry through technology and the Internet

    Pif Magazine contains poetry, fiction, criticism, reviews, articles on craft; web-based writing, occasionally hypertextual.

    Re:, mixed media presentations

    Riding the Meridian, literature and more than literature

    Salt Hill, fiction, poetry, and hypertext
       and Salt Hill First Annual Hypertext Prizes

    The Astrophysicist's Tango Partner Speaks

    The New River, a journal of hypertext literature and art

    ubuweb, visual, concrete + sound poetry

    ~~water~~water~~water~~, a transatlantic collaboration by Christy Sheffield Sanford , Reiner Strasser, & Bodies of Water.

   webdelsol, new forms of artistic and literary expression

    Wordplay. Just what it says. Check it out.

    www.stamen.com, site for exploration of narrative, design, and the interactive.

a brief (selected) list of print texts of interest:

Aarseth, Espen. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997.

Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT Press, 1999.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees. The End of Books --or Books without End?   Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000.

Joyce, Michael. Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics. Univ. of Michigan Press, 1995.

Joyce, Michael. Othermindedness: The Emergence of Network Culture. Univ. of Michigan, 2000.

Landow, George P.  Hyper/Text/Theory.  Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994.

Landow, George P.  Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997.

Lanham, Richard A.  The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology and the Arts. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1993.

Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of the Narrative in Cyberspace. The Free Press, 1997.

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