Who’s Afraid of Animated Poetry?

You won't be after you see this

Yes, we are leaving our dear friend, Hypertext Poetry for animated poetry. We begin a new chapter in our journey into e-poetry!

Animated Poetry [or anipoetry for short]

• The title would be self explanatory though it's not really: animation is more like a televised poem
  
• Or, the poem moves, the words, the images, there could even be music
  
• And it is mostly symbolic or very abstract; it leaves you and I-the audience/readers to interpret or connect the dots on the meaning behind the parts of the poem.
  
• like most e-poetry, it varies in what it is; although I have tried to steer away from this: many pieces of e-poetry cross themselves-it could be hypertext with animation like John Hegley's "What a Poem's Not" [why? The hyperlinked words at the end of the lines activate the animations on the right of the poem]
  

Example of the Post: "30 Days of Rain"

• Created by Travis Alber.
  
• This is poem [or does it stretch the contents our above discussion?] is a beautiful, [ever had one of those-what does this button do moment? Yeah-this poem] content rich piece with music, images and reminds me of this [yes, I spent a lot of pre-DH time there].
  
• Why 30 days of rain? Click on the calendar on the floor for each of the days on the calendar to find out. Each day has a different part of the poem.
  
• One thing is for sure: Sylvia Plath definitely didn't see this one when she wrote: "But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation"
  
  • Of course, Alber didn't just write one day-it's 30 days of rain!