Did you know about Daily BRINK? We did not. Until they interviewed Amaranth Borsuk.

When you’re done reading the interview with Amaranth — you know, she’s the poet who, with developer Brad Bouse, recently re-inevented the medium of, well, the book, via Between Page and Screen — then check out the rest of DailyBR!NK. Their featured entrepreneurs and activists and artists and musicians and activists and…and..and… are inspiring in that way that doesn’t also want to make you kill yourself because you’re not that inspiring. Think TED Talks meets the possibility that you’re not a rocket scientist, and then add some styley photo shoots.

From the interview:

INTRO: You can’t read anything about literature lately without running into a debate about the future of publishing, and depending on which side of the fence you’ve hopped to, you’re likely either mourning the takeover of the Big Bad E-Book or scoffing at the dusty bookshelves of those silly Luddites. So today, Daily BR!NK wishes to examine a compromise. Or rather, offer up an artistic collaboration that will leave even the most opinionated readers, well, without words. Poet and teacher Amaranth Borsuk, along with her collaborator, Brad Bouse, have created a book of poetry that couldn’t exist without both paper and pixels. The result is stunning, and is aptly titled, Between Page and Screen.

On your bio, it says you work on and teach digital poetry; how would you define digital poetry?

AB: For the sake of the class I teach at MIT, digital poetry is any poetry created using contemporary digital media or to be read using digital media. The class runs the gamut from using programming to create automated text generators to creating digital videos of poems, and also creating interactive Flash poems.

DB: Does the idea of digital poetry exist outside of the classes you teach? Is it new part of the poetry world at large?

It’s a thriving form of poetry! There’s a wonderful community of writers and artists who are creating digital poetry, and they have a biennial conference that just celebrated its tenth anniversary in May. It’s an international group that is really pushing the boundaries of how we experience poetry. I think it hasn’t totally crossed over into the mainstream, but it is a large subset of the poetry world.

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