What’s Interactive Poetry?

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Interactive poetry allows multiple people to interact and create a poem together, such as magnetic word tiles or digital mediums. It enhances the meaning of the poem and allows for unique ways of experiencing it, such as through multimedia software programs or group collaboration on internet forums.

Interactive poetry refers to forms of poetry in which multiple people can interact and create the work together, or which allow for interaction by the reader of a poem. A simple example of an interactive format for poetry is magnetic word tiles that can be placed on a refrigerator or other surface. By moving these tiles, different words can be combined by different people to create a variety of poetic sentences and expressions. There are also forms of interactive poetry that can be created in an interactive, digital medium, which can allow a reader to engage with the poem beyond just reading.

The idea behind interactive poetry is typically to allow poets and readers to interact with the creative medium. Magnetic word tiles, for example, offer poets the ability to create sentences and poems in a quick, unusual and interactive way. These types of tiles have even been recreated in various computer programs and websites, providing poets with the ability to create unique sentences and poetic lines through a computer application. Some of these sites then allow a poet to display his interactive poetry for others to see and potentially interact with.

There are also a number of websites that allow for other types of interactive poetry among poets. Internet forums, for example, can be created to host poems created through group collaboration. One person could start a poem or submit a fully realized poem, and then other members can interact with it and add to it. This creates the interactive poetry of a group of people who don’t know each other, creating a new poetic work that has meaning for each of them individually and as a whole.

Interactive poetry can also mean the different ways poetry can be displayed or created for readers in an interactive way. A poet might create a poem within an interactive multimedia software program, for example, which allows others to interact with and experience a poem. This type of presentation or multimedia work can enhance the meaning of the poem in many different ways and allow the reader to connect with a poem in ways that are impossible on a printed page. An interactive poem about secrets that uses the image of locked doors and keys, for example, might take the form of several “layers” of animated doors that each contain one line of the poem. When one door is opened, it exposes the next line and another door, which repeats until the last door opens at the final line of the poem.




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