conclusion 227One fragile possibility is that poetry’s conversation with informa-
tion technology imagines a possible reconvening of community and
political engagement. Such reconvening and creation of communi-
ties, however virtual they may be, can still respond with agency in
the face of adversity.
NOTES
1. Simon Armitage, ‘Killing Time’, in Killing Time (London:
Faber & Faber, 1999 ), pp. 3 – 4. All subsequent references to
this edition are given in the text.
2. Joel Bettridge, ‘A Conversation with Juliana Spahr’, How 2.
Available online at http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how 2 jour-
nal/archive/online_archive/v 2 _ 3 _ 2005 /current/workbook/
spa/media/spa.pdf.
3. Todd Swift (ed.), 100 Poets Against the War (Cambridge:
Salt, 2003 ). Available online as e-book at http://www.nthposition.
com/ 100 poets 0 .pdf.
4. N. Katherine Hayles, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for
the Literary (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame
Press, 2008 ), p. 3. All the electronic writing discussed is
available online at http://collection.eliterature.org/ 1 /index.
html.
5. Ted Nelson, cited in Loss Pequeño Glazier, Digital Poetics:
The Making of E Poetries (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 2002 ), p. 87.
6. Jakob Nielsen, cited in Glazier, Digital Poetics, p. 87.
7. Brian Kim Stefans, ‘What is Electronic Writing?’ 21
February 2006. Available online at http://www.arras.net/brown_
ewriting/?page_id= 54. All immediate citations from Stefans,
unless noted, refer to this online source.
8. ‘Contents by Keyword’, in N. Katherine Hayles, Nick
Montfort, Scott Rettberg and Stephanie Strickland (eds),
Electronic Literature Collection Volume One. Available online at
http://collection.eliterature.org/ 1 /aux/keywords.html.
9. Brian Kim Stefans, ‘ “From Byte to Inscription”: An Interview
with John Cayley’, The Iowa Review Web (February 2003 ).