Music, unlike ordinary language, can ‘make sense’ or have ‘meaning’ even when it does not refer to anything in particular (other than music). Although we often think of music as a kind of language, on the whole we do not regard it as a ‘translatable’ language, the inherent meaning of which could be sufficiently expressed in a different form. If you strip away the ornaments and metaphors of a po...

Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton… It was when I met you through your poetry, that found out… words can lift off the page… and me. My heart. history. spirit. consciousness… -Revelation! As an African-American woman, poetry is integral to how see, understand, make meaning of world. first teacher, my mother, taught me about world her/our history...

Synopsis The Dekaaz poetic form, similar to haiku with its constrained syllable counts per line, invites a connection between poetry and mathematics. Determining the number of possible Dekaaz variations leads to some interesting counting observations. We discuss two different ways to count the number of possible Dekaaz variations, one using a binary framework and the other approaching the count...

Automatic analysis of poetic rhythm is a challenging task that involves linguistics, literature, and computer science. When the language to be analyzed is known, rule-based systems or data-driven methods can be used. In this paper, we analyze poetic rhythm in English and Spanish. We show that the representations of data learned from character-based neural models are more informative than the on...

If we consider the creative processes artists go through in making a work of art, is there a way to model these processes and "re-embody" them within computer mediated interactive environments? Computers present an artistic medium which heightens the potential for an intermingling of the knowledge of the viewer with the "re-embodied intelligence" of an author. Given that computers can house "re...