_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_<br><br>:: IMPORTANT: NEW CHAT SYSTEM BELOW<br>:: Live chat with poet Stephanie Strickland, discussing the 11 Dimensions of E-Poetry and other topics.<br>:: Chat date: Friday, October 20.
<br>:: 10 am West Coast US / 1 pm East Coast USA / 7 pm Paris FR / 3 am Melbourne AU<br>:: LEAD is an open forum around the New Media Poetics special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac <<a href="http://leoalmanac.org/">
http://leoalmanac.org/</a>><br><br>* For tomorrow's chat only, we are experimenting with different chat software: PloneChat, a brower-based chat program hosted at the Center for Literary Computing. This program is less robust than jabber but does not require you to download a client and will not be blocked by firewalls that block instant messaging clients.
<br><br>* The url for the chat is here: <a href="http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/projects/leonardo">http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/projects/leonardo</a>. We will return to the regular system - using jabber - for upcoming chats (see the schedule below).
<br><br>* You need a username and password to access the chat. Email <a href="mailto:charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu">charles.baldwin@mail.wvu.edu</a> with the subject line "strickland chat" to receive a username and password.
<br><br>* Also, please note the dates and times for the next two chats (using the jabber chat program):<br>Manuela Portela 10/23 1 pm West Coast US / 4 pm East Coast USA / 10 pm Paris FR / 6 am Melbourne AU<br>Jason Nelson 10/24 10 am West Coast US / 1 pm East Coast USA / 7 pm Paris FR / 3 am Melbourne AU
<br><br>*---------------------------------------<br><br>Stephanie Strickland Biography<br><br>Stephanie Strickland is both a print and digital hypermedia poet. Her Poem V is an intermedial work consisting of a double poetry book from Penguin(V:
WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una), a Web component cited at book center(Vniverse, <a href="http://vniverse.com">http://vniverse.com</a>, created with Cynthia Lawson), and a supplementary interactive Flash poem (Errand Upon Which We Came, created with
M.D. Coverley, <a href="http://califia.hispeed.com/Errand/title1a.htm">http://califia.hispeed.com/Errand/title1a.htm</a>). Strickland's poems True North, <a href="http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/TrueNorth.html">http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/TrueNorth.html
</a>, and The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot, <a href="http://wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/">http://wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/</a>, have won simultaneous awards in both print and electronic forms.<br><br>Strickland's essays about electronic literature appear online in ebr (Electronic Book Review) and in collections from MIT Press and Intellect Press (England). As the McEver Chair in Writing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she created and produced TechnoPoetry Festival 2002. She has taught hypermedia literature as part of experimental poetry at many universities and serves on the board of the Electronic Literature Organization.