Etherpoems 2: Spoken Word

Next Generation of Digital Poetry

Merzmensch
Merzazine
Published in
8 min readJul 7, 2021

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HHuman creativity can neither stand still nor rest. Blockchain-based poetry project by ArtchickEtherPoems” was published last month and made June 2021 to a celebration of new ways for storytelling, new poetic approaches (I wrote about this project already). And now — the next step:

EtherPoems 2: Spoken Word (poetry in motion)

This is not just a new issue of the project. It is even not a project anymore:

EtherPoems became a literary platform for international poets and artists.

Readers can read and watch poetic video installments. Collectors can collect the NFT-based pieces and support poets. The extraordinary — highly democratic — approach is: all incomes from all collected poems are split among all poets, who took part on EtherPoems2: feast of creative individuality, but with support of the entire collective.

And again, are all poems — as texts — written directly into Blockchain. It became the digital DNA of the chain:

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Merzmensch
Merzmensch

Written by Merzmensch

Futurist. AI-driven Dadaist. Living in Germany, loving Japan, AI, mysteries, books, and stuff. Writing since 2017 about creative use of AI.