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Ideas for Newspoets Write a newspoem in the form of a flowchart. Write a newspoem in the form of a screenplay. Write a newspoem that's a maximum of 12 characters long. Write an ode to Ted Koppel. Come up with a slogan for newspoetry. Stage a bogus event, then cover it for newspoetry with pictures and interviews with passers-by. Freewrite a hypertext starting from a news story, having decided beforehand a single type of link to use: chronological, referential, apparently unrelated... Take a source text and break it into lines. Add a line between each of its lines. Make your lines one font size smaller. Take a photo from a news source and write your own caption. Find the same news story in three different news sources. Write a stanza for each source. Write a small song. Write out the chords and also make a simple recording. Take a photo from the newspaper, draw on it, and scan it in. or Make a drawing of a photo from the newspaper, scan it in. Alter it using software. Type a word that is the first word in a sentence. Make each letter a link to a word that could be the second word in the sentence. Do the same with each second word, and third word, etcetera, until the sentences all end. Example: S -> the bombing Take two headlines the same number of words in length. Make your way from one headline to the other by changing one word at a time. Make the resulting headlines a linear hypertext such that clicking on one takes you to the next. Make the process reverse itself at the end to make an endless circular hypertext. Create a weird table, with lots of rowspan and colspan tags. Make sure it's consistent across browsers. Then write a poem with a stanza in each cell. Use illustrator to make a poem whose text is cut out of an image. Write a poem in two columns which share stanzas. Write a story about the fall of technology which goes from being word-processed to typed to hand-written. Write using only letters with/without curves or vertical/horizontal/diagonal lines Begin a story in words, end it in pictures. Write a story where major events are elided and replaced by an image. Write a story with images that tell another story. Write a concrete novel. Write a story with overwrought descriptions paired with mundane images. Write a poem where the stanzas are replaced automatically, with the speed at which they are replaced varying according to mood. Write a stanza which rearranges itself. Begin a story in words, end it in sounds. Write a story where major events are elided and replaced by a sound Write a story with sounds that tell another story. Write a story with overwrought descriptions paired with mundane sounds. Make a newspoem with only images and sound. Write a hypertext where links fill in missing portions, making the story longer. The reader starts with a short short. After clicking on every link they have a novel. The short short is contained within the novel and the... On a really large page, tell a story in short stanzas, stanzas moving from right to left. Make a HTML form with images and no text - compose a poem based on these responses.
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