Abstract
Focusing on a variety of possible presentational styles of a personal poem, this article explores the problematics of the interplay of the medium and the message. It brings in the theoretical concepts of intertextuality (how previous knowledge impacts one’s reading), media(tion) (how the choice of dissemination through printed texts, spoken texts, images, or combination of these changes the content’s meaning), presence (how readers and/or audience members are situated ontologically and axiology, depending on whether the presentations are recorded or live), the degree of specificity (how detailed information influences interpretative stances), sequencing (how to provide alternatives to the canon of traditional, linear, expository writing), contexture (how the presence of images, gestures, and sounds provides textures to the context examined) and arts-based dissemination (moving beyond flat, black and white printed texts through weblinks). Structured as a virtual workshop based on ones that I have presented, it provides writers and readers with a range of possible choices of how to engage with/in poetic inquiry.
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