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Digital Residence Fall 2019: A Crop of Sunsets

Sunset Cento by our Fall 2019 poet-in-digital-residence Kathryn Hummel is now released! Hummel´s collaborative work comprises of textual and visual fragments sent by participant all over the world. What do people think and feel when watching a sunset? Are all sunsets the same? How does our digital culture affect the ways we experience an analogue […]

In Memoriam: Marko Niemi (1974 – 2019)

Poet, translator, and long-time editor of literature portal Nokturno, Marko Niemi, passed away on Wednesday, 18 September of a seizure. Marko was one of the founders of Nokturno in 2005 and edited the website from 2006-2014. The site’s international standing and significance to the Finnish literary world as a cumulative resource for digital poetry is […]

Open call for mail art!

Poetry magazine Tuli & Savu announces an open call for mail art exhibition. Received works will also be published at Nokturno in a virtual exhibition. Deadline for submissions is at the end of August 16.9.2019. Mail art, developed in the 1950´s and 1960´s, mixes collage, visual poetry and other combinations of image and text, but […]

Our Poets-in-Digital-Residence 2019 are Niina Oisalo and Kathryn Hummel!

This year we held two open calls for Digital Residence at the same time, both for Spring and Fall 2019. Nokturno´s work group chose two intriguing works, each of them using the opportunities provided by our Digital Residency program in a new way. In Spring we have Niina Oisalo´s extensive genre-crossing project on video poetry […]