Against the literary history proposed by Marjorie Perloff, Shaw goes on the lookout for an Outlook that just might save poetry from contemporary theory.

John Matthias reflects on Humphrey Carpenter's biography of 1992, in light of earlier work by Auden and recent findings.

Thomas Swiss unravels Laura Miller's arguments in the New York Times Book Review and finds news of hypertext's demise premature - as was Robert Coover's call for the end of books five years ago in the same journal.

Stephanie Strickland asks how a poetics of hypertext can structure encounters with the world that are as resonant and co-participatory as quantum models.

On the futures of electronic scholarship - an exchange among editors.

On the futures of electronic scholarship - an exchange among editors.

Joel Felix listens in on Postmodern Culture's privatization debate.

Stephanie Strickland on the translation of poetry from print to screen.

A conversation with Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg on the technology and politics of the millenial anthology.

From Zukofsky's "A" to Powers' Goldbug Variations, in search of a social ecology of the self-discursive text.

Millennial thoughts from Raymond Federman.

John Matthias reports on the state of British Poetry and its criticism.

Alan Shaw on the poetics of composer Harry Partch and the musicality of greek prosody.

The second ebr special to employ the concrete poems of Daniel Wenk, working typographical variations on the term, "electropoetics." Guest edited by Joel Felix, who in 1997 was an undergraduate Lit major at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Artist Eduardo Kac writes on the attractions of the hologram as a malleable, fluid, and elastic medium for poetic expression.

Harold Jaffe offers a narrative model for the millenium.

On the musicality of Greek prosody.

Bringing the queston of 'textuality' into the cyberdebates, and refusing the conservative oppostion between contemplative reading and gaming, Daniel Punday argues that critics should embrace spinoff culture as a model for electronic writing.

Lorne Falk retells the allegory of Arachne, the divine weaver, netted in le cabinet virtuel

Oulipo poetics and the art of translation.