Open to poets, performers, composers, and to anyone merely curious, this intensive seminar will feature the close listening, reading, talking, performing, and perhaps screening of poems and multiply-mediated poetic works.
This is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s.
Pablo Gervas will describe systems developed at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid that focus on generating text that satisfies specific restrictions on form.
D. Fox Harrell is the creator of the GRIOT system for computational narrative and author of several works in this system, including Loss, Undersea and The Girl with Skin of Haints and Seraphs.
Amaranth Borsuk discusses her poetic practice as a multi-media writer and artist, reading selections from recent work and showing images and performance footage from current projects.
Three creators of poetic and imaginative systems speak about computational creativity, narrative generation, and the way systems for this sort of work are culturally generated.
Al Filreis has taught his "ModPo" course at Penn for years; in Fall 2012 he offered a 10-week version of the course online, via Coursera.
Join other writers to get advice about your own writing, to help other writers, or to get inspiration to write something to share with the group.
In this wide-ranging conversation, the former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will discuss his collaboration on an opera with Tod Machover of the Media Lab.
Lynette Reini-Grandell is the author of Approaching the Gate (Holy Cow! Press, 2014), which won the 2015 Northeastern Minnesota book Award for Poetry.
"Donald Berger's cosmic spaces and ‘long times’ have a way of abruptly, breathtakingly concentrating themselves in a single, exclamatory revelation." – John Ashbery
"The first work on 'living poetry' in the world, by the author of the bestselling book Eunoia."
Soren Stockman works at the NYU Creative Writing Program. Tanya Liu is a recent recipient of the Lucille Clifton Scholarship for the Poetry Program at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers