This genre, also called cyberpoetry, is a form of digital poetry that uses links using hypertext mark-up. It refers to works of verse (although not necessarily in lines and stanzas) which could not be presented without the computer.

It is fiction that is written for and read from a computer and can be web- or app-based (for tablets and smartphones) or accessed via CD-ROMs.

It has taken on numerous forms, but in general, poetry is the genre of literature which has some form of meter or rhyme with focus based on syllable counts, musicality, and division of lines.