The Footnote HP gets it name from the way that Hypertext has been used in

the past. A Hyperpoem can have a number of subpoems that run in parallel,

i.e. there is no set order of reading. In a sense, the subpoems can be seen as

footnotes of a main poem, or of each other.
 

                                                                                                   From: The E-muse:Symbiosis and the Principles of Hyperpoetry