A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

After the death of my mother, the work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Digital Poetry Movement

Historical And Literary Periods
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A contemporary movement of poets working explicitly with digital technology to create poetry that exists primarily in digital media. Includes hypertext poetry, interactive poetry, and digital performance poetry using sound, image, and text.

Detailed Definition
The Digital Poetry Movement represents radical formal innovation through technology-specific poetic creation. Poets harness computational possibilities for aesthetic experimentation. This movement appears in poetry through hypertext structures requiring interactive navigation, multimedia integration of sound and image with text, algorithmic generation of poetry, interactive and responsive poems, exploration of digital temporality and interactivity, and examination of how digital media fundamentally transforms poetic experience and meaning-making.
Example
Example in poetry:
A kinetic poem where the words literally move, flash, or change on a screen, using programming and animation to explore the potential of the Digital Poetry Movement; A 'hypertext' poem where the reader's clicks determine the path of the narrative and the sequence of stanzas; A collaborative, constantly evolving poem hosted online, where readers can contribute or alter the text; A work that incorporates video, sound, or interactive elements into the reading experience.
Additional Notes
The Digital Poetry Movement explores computer-generated verse, algorithmic writing, and interactive digital art. Poets integrate sound, code, and visuals, challenging notions of authorship and reader participation. It represents poetry’s adaptation to cyberspace and post-textual creativity.
Also Known As
Digital Poetry E-Poetry Computational Poetry
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