Algorithms and Authorship

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…

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 only thing that made you feel better

I know Android users have had this for a while but I am totally entranced by the “SwiftKey” predictive text feature, new in iOS 8.

Text messages in particular. I wonder how long I can maintain a conversation with a friend using only…

Without Style / Sin Estilo

Beckett, Google Translate, and the back-translation

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…

I shall sing you the song of my people

Reading the first few pages of The Heights of Macchu Picchu and it sparks a little something, not the words so much as the way the words are arranged, the way they revolve, the way some of them are like little centers of gravity, little planets in the solar…

Shrub and the advent of exposure poetry

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