The article deals with the problems and features of the distribution of poetry in the multimedia space. An analysis of the poetic channels and online meetings on video hosting sites, video streaming services, as well as in video communication programs, made it possible to propose a hypothesis that the participatory discussion of poetic texts in the live streaming format forms secondary interactivity: a multitude of recipients is rethought as a multitude of content creators. There appears a form that, in the context of the history of literature, can be called an inverse performance, where the reader already becomes a performer and makes the poet a participator. Due to the paucity of contemporary reader's poetic space, this reader can be both a critic, a poet, an artist, and a book blogger, which turns the performance into a permanent meta-statement. Stream as an aesthetic phenomenon can become for a whole group of recipients one of the main channels for perceiving poetry, a way to learn about new poets, book novelties, new publications in poetry Internet portals and, finally, a direct way to read poetry — through online reading and analysis of poems by a streamer/blogger.
For citation:
Gorelov O.S. Stream as a metapoetic performance, Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2022, iss. 4, pp. 5—14.