Before I read this chapter I assumed that kinetic and interactive poetry were the same thing. Well they can be used together they are different things. Kinetic is using the movement of the poem as part of it. And interactive has the reader actually participating. I am a big fan of both of these forms. I think that including movement of a poem adds to the depth poetry can already go blending in a futuristic lens. I have had less experience with interactive poetry I enjoyed interactive games and I enjoy poetry so seems like best of both worlds. I find it cool bring poetry into the modern age by using technology and advancing it with us instead of just leaving it behind. I enjoy that poetry in a digital lens has its own specialities and its own place in the digital world.
Reading dear e.e. I found it very interesting. It is cool how the poem is moving around and you have to actually put in work to read it. I enjoyed that as you were asleep the room was moving around fast and floating in an unreal like way. Putting poetry in a new fashion is a great way to deepen the meaning of a poem and I like the way this one was executed. One of the awake lines about just hoping to find matching socks I found comical in a very real way. Compared to someone else perceived as more "put together" and the comical way of masking jealousy was very well done.
I agree with your point about 'modernizing' poetry. It's a difficult form of media for a lot of people, for me mostly because I just never know what the appropriate level of analysis is and I usually just give up after the vibes of the text make sense. Interactive elements add a palatability and tangible sense to poetry that's very appealing to me. Every poem is in its own way unique, but in a bound book of a couple hundred of them, they will obviously start blending. Adding all these elements makes them memorable and modern.
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