2024
“Mary Writes an Essay”
https://marymccray.com/mary-writes-an-essay/
Why it’s an Internet poem: made to be impermanent.
“A Duende Lesson” (a video poem)
https://marymccray.com/the-duende-lesson.mp4
Why it’s an Internet poem: readability issues, illicit use of clipart, animation.
“Maps” (an HTML poem)
https://marymccray.com/maps/maps.htm
Why it’s an Internet poem: video, audio, images and word animation.
“Birds in Winter Trees” (an HTML poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/birds-in-winter-trees.htm
Why it’s an Internet poem: readability issues, incorrectly using clipart.
“The Source” (an HTML poem)
https://marymccray.com/the-source.html
Why it’s an Internet poem: images and hidden HTML.
2023
“TAEP: Transformative Acronyms to Escape a Point, An Essay”
https://marymccray.com/taep/
Why it’s an Internet poem: access issues with password-protection firewalls for intellectual online content, ongoing expansion.
“Framing” (an HTML poem)
https://marymccray.com/framing/framing.htm
Why it’s an Internet poem: access and readability issues, obsolete technology, interactivity, collages with existing internet content.
“Across the Stick” (an HTML poem)
https://www.marymccray.com/acrostic/across-the-stick.htm
Why it’s an Internet poem: readability issues.
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://www.marymccray.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
2016
Video: Making NaPoWriMo Poems
After Tim Tsang’s #HYPERTEXTEDIT project.
Why it’s an Internet poem: video of writing.
“Stacks” (YouTube)
“Ideologies” (YouTube)
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
2012
Video: Poets in Real Life: Job Interview (YouTube)
Animated using xtranormal.
1996-2007
Hypertext Narratives
Choose Your Own Celebrity Adventures (1996-2007) Ape Culture
Sonny Bono, Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart by me.
