The HTML Review

The HTML Review https://thehtml.review The HTML Review RSS en-us https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification [email protected] (Maxwell Neely-Cohen) [email protected] (Shelby Wilson) Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/04/ https://thehtml.review/04/ Issue 04 The HTML Review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/03/ https://thehtml.review/03/ Issue 03 The HTML Review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/about open-call-2024 Open call for our spring 2024 issue The HTML Review (https://thehtml.review/), is officially open for submissions until Dec 1st for our third issue, which will come out in late March! We publish all sorts of poetic, narrative, and artistic experiments that utilize the web as a medium. In addition to completed work, we also welcome submissions of works-in-progress and pitched ideas. We pay $500 per contribution, and all contributors own their own work in perpetuity. To submit, send us an email with your pitch and a bit about yourself to [email protected]. Sat, 04 Nov 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/02/ https://thehtml.review/02/ Issue 02 The HTML Review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/02/a-lettter-from-the-editor.html https://thehtml.review/02/a-lettter-from-the-editor.html A Letter From the Editor by Maxwell Needly-Cohen. It’s Spring again, and so I am thrilled to welcome you to the second issue of the html review, an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/02/call-and-response.html https://thehtml.review/02/call-and-response.html Call & Response by AC Gillette. A seed, emerging. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://alex.miller.garden/grid-world https://alex.miller.garden/grid-world Grid World by Alexander Miller. If you want to know how something is made, you should look for the grids. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/02/found-poem/index.html https://thehtml.review/02/found-poem/index.html found poem by Alicia Guo. What does it mean to find a poem? Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/02/intimate-codex/index.html https://thehtml.review/02/intimate-codex/index.html Intimate Codex by Andy Wallace. Move between passages by typing a word you see on screen and pressing enter. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.betsykenyon.com/attention https://www.betsykenyon.com/attention Seek Shelter by Betsy Kenyon. A poetic performance, exploring “virus” both in its digital form and environmental implication. The thermal footage, recording elemental forces, was created while traveling to the extreme edges of the contiguous United States. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://chiaski.github.io/Concrete-Form/public/ https://chiaski.github.io/Concrete-Form/public/ Concrete Form by Chia Amisola. Are you human? Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.daniellichtman.com/cicada-mountain/ https://www.daniellichtman.com/cicada-mountain/ Cicada Mountain by Daniel Lichtman. She has this to say about herself: I am not an insect, I am a goddess. I am a sacred creature of the night. I am not a pest, I am a blessing. I am not a noise-maker, I am a singer. I am not a nuisance, I am a miracle. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/02/whispers-from-a-soft-garden.html https://thehtml.review/02/whispers-from-a-soft-garden.html whispers from a soft garden by Esther Bouquet. It is not about how fast you can read the entire poem or even its readability, it is more about the experience of discovering it bits by bits, drawing it little by little, with patience and care, just like you would trim off bushes in a garden to shape them. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.aworldof.space/ https://www.aworldof.space/ A World of Space by Ivan Zhao. Maybe your consciousness touched mine. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.proseplay.net/ https://www.proseplay.net/ Prose Play by Katherine Yang. A tool for exploring alternate word choices, worlds, and possibilities. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/02/blank-page-with-machine.html https://thehtml.review/02/blank-page-with-machine.html Blank Page with Machine by Katy Ilonka Gero. The text in this piece was written in collaboration with a language model trained on my own private writing. In this way, the words are all my own but I had to confront the recombination of my thoughts in ways I could not control. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://observatory.subject.space/ https://observatory.subject.space/ Observatory by Logan Williams. Observatory pulls recent feelings from the internet into an unpredictable exquisite corpse. The words are (mostly) written by people, not generated by machines. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/02/cinderella-has-anterograde-amnesia.html https://thehtml.review/02/cinderella-has-anterograde-amnesia.html Cinderella Has Anterograde Amnesia by Lucy Zhang. I wore the glass slipper because my brain shattered every fifteen minutes. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/02/discrepancies.html https://thehtml.review/02/discrepancies.html Discrepancies by Matthew Baker. We were all there that day at the farm, gathered around the table... Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mifsud.org/sun https://mifsud.org/sun Sun Letters by Nathan Mifsud. Each sunrise suffuses agony and ecstasy alike. Bodies glow, oceans sparkle. The sun speaks the same fiery tongue as ever. By contrast, language is many-tongued, ever-constructed, in constant advance and retreat. Each sentence is a swell of voices, a tide of generations. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.reese.land/siggyshop.html https://www.reese.land/siggyshop.html Siggy Shop by Reese Oxner. A love letter to online message boards. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://htmlgarden.spencerchang.me/ https://htmlgarden.spencerchang.me/ HTML Garden by Spencer Chang. Visit again on different days to see the garden grow. Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/01/ https://thehtml.review/01/ Issue 01 The HTML Review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/01/a-lettter-from-the-editor.html https://thehtml.review/01/a-lettter-from-the-editor.html A Letter From the Editor by Maxwell Needly-Cohen. I am thrilled to welcome you to the inaugural issue of the html review, an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://player.vimeo.com/video/697922132?h=53ba8c750d https://player.vimeo.com/video/697922132?h=53ba8c750d A Good Game of Catch by Eloisa Amezcua. The text from this poem, spoken by Bobby Chacon, is from the "A Loose Chacon Learns to Face the Facts," by Michael Katz, The New York Times, January 13, 1984: "We’re going to play a good game of catch... We’ve got two fighters here who like to fight. We love to get hit. We love to hit back." Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://code-scraps.neocities.org/anonymous_animal/ https://code-scraps.neocities.org/anonymous_animal/ Anonymous Animal by Everest Pipkin. Anonymous Animal is a 15 minute durational browser poem that runs every hour, on the hour. Using the somewhat-outdated (and rather unstable) web technology of iframes to load and unload pages on a synced clock, Anonymous Animal guides visitors on a collective walk through links, images, wiki pages, and livestreams across the internet. It is an elegy for the era of cross-origin browser requests and off-site embeddable media, as well as a meditation on still being quietly online, together. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/01/western-hearts-at-the-edge-of-saying-html.pdf https://thehtml.review/01/western-hearts-at-the-edge-of-saying-html.pdf western hearts at the edge of saying by Jayson P. Smith. "the familiarity of this narrative does nothing to appease the hunger of recorded memory... in a very real sense, every writing as revision makes the discovery all over again" —Hortense Spillers Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/01/accumulation.html https://thehtml.review/01/accumulation.html Accumulation by Katy Ilonka Gero. 'Accumulation' was influenced by several strands of inquiry: reading Rachel Carson's book 'The Sea Around Us', an epic overview of what we knew about the sea in the 1950s; thinking about where our language comes from, its colonial history, and how it changes over time; and exploring how I want to make use of computation in my poetry practice. The text and layout were created in tandem and informed each other; this might be my first truly html-native poem. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/01/today-we-saw.html https://thehtml.review/01/today-we-saw.html Today, we saw by Lan Zhang and Anna Garbier. A travel log that documents a day's trip across the image-filled web. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/01/saturn-return.html https://thehtml.review/01/saturn-return.html Saturn Return by Larissa Pham. i thought i knew what i needed to figure it all out. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 http://maylikhoe.com/writing/guess-words.html http://maylikhoe.com/writing/guess-words.html Guess Words by May-Li Khoe. A meditation on the moment and the surprising collective solace found in playing Wordle. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/01/progress.html https://thehtml.review/01/progress.html Progress by Nick Montfort. This computational poem is free software. You are encouraged to study the source and welcome to modify it if you like. It is known to load properly on all current, updated major operating systems and browsers. Current Mac OS and Windows systems do have incomplete font coverage, and users of these systems will see rectangles where glyphs should appear at one point. The problem is easily remedied by installing Linux on your computer. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://a-small-memorial.glitch.me/ https://a-small-memorial.glitch.me/ A Small Memorial by Todd Anderson. This piece is a small memorial, like a little roadside shrine. You can only see the piece if you work together with the other people visiting the site at the same time, the piece will only reveal itself if more than half the people on the site are holding down the requested keys. It's not much, but I like this small feeling of togetherness, the small feeling of relying on someone else to get where you are going. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://shelby.cool/a-room-with-a-window/ https://shelby.cool/a-room-with-a-window/ A Room with a Window by Shelby Wilson. Open the blinds, let some light in. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://thehtml.review/01/flight-simulation.html https://thehtml.review/01/flight-simulation.html Flight Simulation by Yuzhu Chai. Welcome aboard. Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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