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Sandy Baldwin responds to Lori Emerson

Scott Rettberg, responding to "The Pixel/The Line" (section 4 of First Person) wonders whether electronic writing isn't evolving into a subspecies of electronic art, one that uses words as material, 'just as sculptors use clay.'

1999 e-literature award winner John Cayley writes about Saul Bass of classic film title fame. A precursor to language arts innovators Jenny Holzer, Richard Kostelanetz, and Cayley himself, Bass may now be recognized as a poet in his own 'write,' important for a new generation of designwriters creating "graphic bodies of language," moving words and signifying images, in digital environments.

Now that the First Person essay collection is complete and the case has been made for computer games as a form of narrative, Brian Kim Stefans asks the fundamental questions - concerning what can be read as literature, and what really cannot.

Marta Werner uncages Emily Dickinson's fragments.

A Wallace Stevens conference review from poet and critic Ravi Shankar.

William Major measures academic "ecocriticism" against the practical "agrarianism" of Wendell Berry.

Diana Lobb responds to Katherine Hayles and ponders the ambiguities of dialogue.

Katherine Hayles responds to Diana Lobb.

Markku Eskelinen reiterates the bounds of ludology.