Dive into Mark recently discussed an article at Kuro5hin about misleading emoticons. Mark included the "Waka Waka" poem, which I had never seen but which I think would be great for teaching poetry to poetry-shy contemporary students (for many of whom poetry is like Latin -- a "dead" language). From Dive into Mark:
 First, the poem itself (there are many versions, this is just one):
<> ! * ' ' #
^ " ` $ $ -
! * = @ $ _
% * <> ~ # 4
& [ ] . . /
| { , , system halted
In English, this reads:
waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash
bang splat equal at dollar under-score
percent splat waka waka tilda number four
ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash
vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma crash
In a related vein, more and more people are posting their creative writing (short stories and novels, as well as poetry) online. This is nothing new -- vanity pages devoted to poetry were among the first (and often worst). But there's some great stuff out there. The best (and most experimental) I know of is Douglas Rushkoff's Exit Strategy. Today markpasc.blog links to a new novel (in progress) for our enjoyment (this one posted via Radio: American Invisible.
If you read this and know of other online novels/short stories -- especially those posted or developed with blogging software, please let me know.
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