I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers

And nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

That’s John Bartlett, talking about his Familiar Quotations. My parents had a very old copy, and in my thrilling youth I would…

Generative Composition: A Primer

So you want to make a Twitter bot

Introduction

My Assistant

The most interesting feature of Google Photos is the poorly named Assistant.

Google Photos itself is the assistant. It backs up my camera roll, organizes it by people, places, and things. It is mostly helpful.

The Minimum Viable Word

I am about to draw a tenuous connection between Reverse OCR and the “minimum…

PROCEED: a cookbook for poems

I’m excited to share a new side project. It’s PROCEED, a digital zine for procedural poetry.

What is procedural poetry?

Procedural poetry is any text that is generated according to a replicable procedure…

Without Style / Sin Estilo

Beckett, Google Translate, and the back-translation

Shrub and the advent of exposure poetry

If erasure is the art of selectively erasing found text, then…