These Waves of Girls by Caitlin Fisher
<http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/>

The winner of the 2001 Electronic Literature Award for Fiction, Caitlin Fisher’s These Waves of Girls is a hypertext novella about girlhood, identity, cruelty, sexuality and secrets. Larry McCaffery, the fiction judge who selected the work for the award, found that “ . . . the writing in these narrative shards (many of which are sharply etched enough to draw blood) is by turns, tender, terrifying, erotic, lyrical, witty, surprising -- and always emotionally engaging.”

riverIsland by John Cayley
<http://homepage.mac.com/shadoof/>

John Cayley, the British e-poet who won the 2001 Electronic Literature Award for poetry for his transliteral morphing HyperCard text-movie Windsound, advanced his project further with the release this year of riverIsland, a series of poems based on translations of Eighth Century Chinese poet Wang Wei’s “Wang River Sequence.” The HyperCard work uses Quicktime VR as a device to navigate through this quietly meditative multilingual multimedia poetryscape. (Mac only).

Email Literature by Alan Sondheim
<http://www.eliterature.org/interactions/starthere/work-alansondheim.shtml>

Alternumerics by Paul Chan
<http://nationalphilistine.com/alternumerics/>

Writer/designer/political activist Paul Chan’s Alternumerics is conceptually brilliant. The work consists of a series of fonts in which each keystroke represents not a letter but a phrase, a bit of handwriting, or a measure of white space. The result is something between fiction, design and conceptual art.

Exhale by Orit Kruglanski and Raquel Paricio
<http://www.soymenos.com/respira/exhale/>

To read this poem in its entirety, the reader must “breathe life into it.” As the reader blows gently into the microphone, the words float around and assemble with the flow of the reader's breath. It's an ingenious idea for an interface, and the content of the poem relates thematically to the process of interacting with the poem. (Mac only).

Blue Company by Rob Wittig
<http://www.tank20.com>

Rob Wittig’s subscription serial email novel Blue Company saw its second performance in 2002. Subscribers received a epistle in their inbox every day for a month from Berto Alto, a copywriter who had been transferred by his company through time and space to 14th Century Italy. As he has so adroitly in previous works, Wittig successfully mixed genres of the past with the media of the future in this engaging email novel. A preview is available online.

The Iliad by Homer, Barry Smylie and collaborators
<http://barrysmylie.com/iliad/iliad000.htm>

An ambitious project retelling Homer's Iliad, using contemporary imagery and flash animations, taking artistic advantage of multimedia to make a classic tale accessible to a new audience.

Newspoetry
<http://www.newspoetry.com>

This Urbana, Illinois-based writing collective founded by William Gillespie and edited by Joe Futrelle, has been presenting “all the news that scans” for four years running. Each day, Newspoetry presents a new poem (or text of some kind) presenting a reaction to the news of the day.