First, I don't think Bill's poem was poorly received at all... There were workshop suggestions, to be sure, but it wasn't really panned.
Second, as others have mentioned, there are many new "forms" of poetry that have emerged solely out of Internet usage. Flarf was mentioned, but Poegles are another variation. Not my cup of tea, but they exist.
I have a few A.I. poems, one of which was in Rattle a few years ago. I've also written about online dating and other "modern" computer-based themes. I suspect many folks here have as well (I've seen lots of poems that mention Facebook etc.)...it's just that it becomes more of a backdrop issue than a front-and-center one, because it's now part of our society. The other side of the coin is that the Internet has only been around in a popular sense for a little over twenty years. As ubiquitous as it is, it's still "new" in a sense. As the decades go on, we'll probably be able to look back and see that there were quite a few contemporary poems on this topic...just ones that we might not know about at the moment.
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