Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures
Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have come to pattern the reading and writing of poetry, contributors emphasize both the expressivist cast of digital literary culture and the deep-running ambivalence that characterizes aesthetic and critical responses to platformed cultural production. The volume features chapters on Pan- African spoken word programs, Singaporean Facebook groups, decolonial hemispheric networks, and Japanese media-critical poetries as well as platforms such as Twitter/X, Instagram, and Amazon.

Though contributors write from a variety of methodological positions and address themselves to a range of archives, they share the primary conviction that the impact of Web 2.0 on literary practice is far-reaching, far from self-evident, and far more variegated and unpredictable than easy summations of social media’s influence suggest. Expressive Networks asks after poetry’s present and future by examining what poems themselves express about the social make-up of networked platforms.

Edited by Matthew Kilbane with contributions from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Micah Bateman, Andrew Campana, Sumita Chakraborty, Scott Challener, C.R. Grimmer, Tess McNulty, Michael Nardone, Seth Perlow, Anna Preus, Susanna Sacks, Carly Schnitzler, Melanie Walsh, and Samuel Caleb Wee.

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Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures
Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have come to pattern the reading and writing of poetry, contributors emphasize both the expressivist cast of digital literary culture and the deep-running ambivalence that characterizes aesthetic and critical responses to platformed cultural production. The volume features chapters on Pan- African spoken word programs, Singaporean Facebook groups, decolonial hemispheric networks, and Japanese media-critical poetries as well as platforms such as Twitter/X, Instagram, and Amazon.

Though contributors write from a variety of methodological positions and address themselves to a range of archives, they share the primary conviction that the impact of Web 2.0 on literary practice is far-reaching, far from self-evident, and far more variegated and unpredictable than easy summations of social media’s influence suggest. Expressive Networks asks after poetry’s present and future by examining what poems themselves express about the social make-up of networked platforms.

Edited by Matthew Kilbane with contributions from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Micah Bateman, Andrew Campana, Sumita Chakraborty, Scott Challener, C.R. Grimmer, Tess McNulty, Michael Nardone, Seth Perlow, Anna Preus, Susanna Sacks, Carly Schnitzler, Melanie Walsh, and Samuel Caleb Wee.

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Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures

by Matthew Kilbane (Editor)

Overview

Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have come to pattern the reading and writing of poetry, contributors emphasize both the expressivist cast of digital literary culture and the deep-running ambivalence that characterizes aesthetic and critical responses to platformed cultural production. The volume features chapters on Pan- African spoken word programs, Singaporean Facebook groups, decolonial hemispheric networks, and Japanese media-critical poetries as well as platforms such as Twitter/X, Instagram, and Amazon.

Though contributors write from a variety of methodological positions and address themselves to a range of archives, they share the primary conviction that the impact of Web 2.0 on literary practice is far-reaching, far from self-evident, and far more variegated and unpredictable than easy summations of social media’s influence suggest. Expressive Networks asks after poetry’s present and future by examining what poems themselves express about the social make-up of networked platforms.

Edited by Matthew Kilbane with contributions from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Micah Bateman, Andrew Campana, Sumita Chakraborty, Scott Challener, C.R. Grimmer, Tess McNulty, Michael Nardone, Seth Perlow, Anna Preus, Susanna Sacks, Carly Schnitzler, Melanie Walsh, and Samuel Caleb Wee.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798895060018
Publisher: Amherst College Press
Publication date: 06/10/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 388
File size: 67 MB
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About the Author

Matthew Kilbane is is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame. A scholar of modern and contemporary poetry, media studies, and the digital humanities, he is author of The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024).

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction | Matthew Kilbane Viral Form and Platform Content 1. Lyric Melodrama: The Hermeneutics of Viral Poems | Sumita Chakraborty 2. The Some and the Many: A Distant Reading of Twitter’s Most Popular #Poems | Tess McNulty 3. Not With a Bang But a Tweet: Democracy, Culture Wars, and the Memeification of T.S. Eliot | Melanie Walsh and Anna Preus 4. Incorporating Multitudes: Whitman, Occupy, and Liberalism’s Neutrality Fantasy | Micah Bateman Jeff Nunokawa’s Facebook Notes Kevin Killian’s Amazon Reviews Alternative Networks 5. The Promise of a Pan-African Poetics: The Spoken Word Project, IGO Funding, and the Curation of Contemporary Poetry | Susanna Sacks 6. The New Cultural Ecology: On Web 2.0, SingPoWriMo, and Postcolonial Writing in Contemporary Singapore | Samuel Caleb Wee 7. Platforming Poetics: Loss Pequeño Glazier and the Electronic Poetry Center | Michael Nardone The Digital Project: Archive, Network, Platform Activist Networks Through Public Scholarship | C.R. Grimmer Cameron Awkward-Rich on Writing Poetry “In the Break” of Black and Trans Dialectics | C.R. Grimmer and Cameron Awkward-Rich Poetry / Media / Critique 8. Arranging with the Stack: The Computer-Generated Poem as Social Medium in Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s “@Tubman’s_Rock” | Carly Schnitzler 9. The Remediating Poetics of the Contemporary Poetry of the Americas | Scott Challener 10. On the Badness of Instagram Poetry | Seth Perlow Ryōta Yamada’s “Contemporary Poetry Wikipedia Parade” The Poetics of the Internet Rabbit Hole | Andrew Campana Poetry Games and Platform Studies Bibliography Contributors
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