2 posts tagged with poetry by moonmilk.
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Encomials: Sonnets from Pentametron

My bot and I wrote a book! I used a fancier version of pentametron (previously on projects) to generate a book of sonnets made entirely of texts found on twitter. It's been published by Counterpath Press as part of the Using Electricity series edited by Nick Montfort. [more inside]
posted by moonmilk on Oct 10, 2018 - 1 comment

With algorithms subtle and discrete, I seek iambic writings to retweet

Pentametron 2013 (pronounce the year "two thousand and thirteen") scans seven million tweets or so each day, in search of those that happen to be in pentameter - and then it retweets them. It digs up five to ten of these per hour, making a sort of endless sonnet from the vast collective chatter of the Net. [more inside]
posted by moonmilk on Mar 21, 2012 - 17 comments

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