recipes for morning anxieties

For my final project, I combined my exploration of storytelling in media with my search for dealing with my anxieties and existential questions. I did so by looking for questions within movie scripts or books and the answers they have for these in the same media. By applying the answers as ingredients in a template…

Draconian anxiety poems

This week’s assignment is creating a poetic form using tracery. I wanted to use this assignment as an exploration of my anxieties, of my fears, of the eternal presence of them in my life. I want to speak about how these fears get into my life, how they get under my skin unpredictably and inexorably,…

Flowing frustrations in rebellion

For this assignment, we had to create a text using at least two source texts and the list variable type. You can see all the source files in my GitHub repository Sources In an attempt to join my exploration of authors and topics, I chose some works by the poet Eileen Myles. I read her…

Computer-aided poetry

For this assignment, we had to create our own poetry generator by modifying some well-known that already exist. The following ones were recoded from Allison Parrish’s poetry generator examples. Links to the GitHub repository & jupyter notebook. Dadaist forgetfulness My first approach was to use the Dadaist poem generator with on of my own texts,…