From: sgarfink (Susan Garfinkel) Subject: poetry machines To: filreis88 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 13:49:34 -0400 (EDT) i'm starting to work on some poetry machines that will generate procedural, random, semi-mediated, etc. poems. you'll be able to go in and try them out either before the slam, during the slam, or later when they're still in the moo. if something good comes out that you'd like to read aloud *at* the slam, that will be an option. i'm looking for several things. 1) suggestions for procedures for generating poems. i have a few ideas but would be glad to draw on your collective thoughts on this and 2) a long list of favorite phrases from poems we've looked at this semester. if even 10 of you were to send me your favorite ten phrases, i'd have 100 to enter into the program... 3) word lists. send me sets of words that you feel go together in interesting ways. say 20 nouns, 20 adjectives that could describe those nouns, 20 verbs, and some sentance or paragraph structure... see what i'm getting at? similar to the random *so much depends* that's in penn central. if you have a specific idea, please get in touch. i'd like this to be as collective as possible. you'll probably find me in the moo a lot in the next week, so stop by! susan
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