My current major projects involve poetry which dynamically changes based on reader interaction. In order to do this, I use HTML, VRML, executable programs, and sculpture. Of course, this work is still in the experimental stage, and only one aspect of this has been "published," so it is not currently available on this web site because of the widespread copyright infringement inherent in the medium.

This part of my work originates with the sonnet of Raymond Queneau, as well as the College of 'Pataphysics and Raymond Roussel's Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique, a poem so extraordinary that it was the focus of Ian Watson's The Embedding, and so unlike anything else that the surrealists invented machines to try to read the poem. It's very readable, but the language and structure are so layered that trying to hold all the concepts in place at the same time is so demanding a task of the reader as to be nearly impossible. Several translations of Roussel's poem into HTML (see Douglas Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language for why I consider this translation) are available. One site I like is Harald Winkler's, but there are many other sites available.

Of course, as can be seen in my writing samples, I also write traditional poetry. Most of my unpublished poetry has been presented at bilingual readings at the Centre Européen de Poésie d'Avignon in France. For more information about unpublished work, please contact me.

I am also at work on a cyberpunk detective novel, and in the planning process for a fantasy novel. If you would like to submit reader feedback on the fantasy novel, please see the discussion boards. Follow the link from any writing sample for more information.

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