Auto-generated Melville/Dickinson poetry

Cory Doctorow 10:40 pm Tue Dec 21, 2010

Andrew sez, "MIT faculty member Nick Montfort, along with poet Stephanie Strickland, just published Sea and Spar Between, a poetry generator based on text from the poems of Emily Dickinson and Melville's Moby-Dick. From those combined works, the poem can assemble into stanzas the words very common or very unique to both. The result is an incredible way to learn poetry: you get to explore how we read, analyze, and write poetry ourselves."

Sea and Spar Between

Nick Montfort publishes "Sea and Spar Between", a Dickinson+Melville poetry generator

(Thanks, Andrew!)

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