Democratisation and creative process: Poem's body on the web

This paper focuses on changes that have effect on poetic creation forms and the poem’s body, which, together, contribute to web poetic writing democratisation. Observing the poetry created and shared on the internet one discovers considerable transformations that have been occurring for about twenty years with the interactions that poets have among themselves and between them and their readers, and, especially, with the poem’s body. Studying poetry and poets by means of what is shown on the web allows us to reach unusual realities, based on original elements, with new nature, so to speak, more than access to data. Furthermore, the internet establishes realities that reverb events far out of its screens, technologies, languages, habits, leading to a diversity of experiences that, perhaps, was not yet processed with questions and suitable conceptual apparatus, fixed on the singularity of that phenomena. Within that communication, we would like to point, in a preliminary fashion, to some ways through which poets and non poets interact on the internet, evaluating practices linked to poetry. Also, we would like to present some of the new configurations in which poetic creation has been appearing in that support, especially to significant modifications on its body, and, as a consequence, on the poem’s image —its silhouette, colour, texture, visual ambience et cetera. We will be concerned with indicating important correlations between propositions made by poets considered as vanguardists and the currently diffuse poetic creation process, which is not based on knowledge of those propositions and poets. Regarding its diffusion, and other characteristics, we call this process “cultural improvisation” —generative, meaning that it is based on what is extensively known as poems; temporal, that is, non eruptive; extensive, namely, non reducible to individual ruptures with established creation models; and as a practice mostly naturalised by the involved social actors.