Has anybody ever written or read good hypertextual poetry? It's a really cool concept. Basically, it plays off the idea that the "author is dead" - the author doesn't have the authority in texts anymore. The reader and author share this authority.

Hypertextual poetry plays with this authority by shoving it more on the reader; the author creates parts of a poem, and links them together through connecters, generally links. The final poem the reader ends up with is what the reader has built from the links they've chosen to click. The reader creates their own connections based on the limits the authors provide, and come up with unique thoughts/ideas in the process. It's really quite cool.

Here's the one I did for my ETS 142 class: http://musings.ithoughtit.org

~Artemis

Sounds like a cool idea, but I just tried that and the poem came out as nonsense, and ended after the third click on a page of symbols with no link.

This reminds me of "Circle Poetry", where people sit in a circle and write one line, move to the next poem, add one line on, and so on and so forth.

Why must the poem be in the words?

The poem is in the connections.

~Artemis

Good idea Arty.