Mutation of the poem on the web

This article focuses on changes concerning the ways of creating poetry and what I will treat as the body – the form – of poems, which occur alongside a democratization of web-based poetry writing. Studying poetry and poets by means of what is shown on the Internet allows us to reach unusual realities, very different from those accessed through printed poetry, based on original elements, with a new nature, so to speak – as well as to access data about poetry that is being created right now. I would like to point out some ways in which poets and non-poets interact on the Internet, evaluating practices linked to poetry. I would also like to present some of the new configurations that poems have been appearing in, especially the ones concerning significant modifications on their body, and, as a consequence, on their image – their outline, colour, texture and visual ambience.