Constraints are a major factor shaping the conceptual space of many areas of creativity. We propose to use constraint programming techniques and off-the-shelf constraint solvers in the creative task of poetry writing. We show how many aspects essential in different poetical forms, and partially even in the level of language syntax and semantics can be represented as interacting constraints. The...

“Nature” is one of the most challenging concepts in philosophy, and notoriously difficult to define. In ancient Greece, two strategies for coming to terms with nature were developed. On the one hand, nature was seen as a perfect geometrical order, analysable with the help of geometry and deductive reasoning. On the other hand, a more Dionysian view emerged, stressing nature’s unpredictability, ...

A Fibonacci poem follows the sequence to any length in its count of syllables per line, or words lines stanza, other countable thing connected with poem. Fib is a special case poem, 6 whose syllable line first numbers sequence: 1; 2; 3; 5; 8. The present collection Fibs arose out Bridges poetry community response organization’s efforts make 2021 conference more interactive.

â â  “macaronic” literally refers to an attribute for a thing which possesses two colors or two dissimilar qualities, and “macaronic verse”, in arabic rhetoric, points to a kind of poem whose words in one hemstitch or in the whole stitch are composed of words which include dotted letters (mo’jamah) whereas the words in another hemstitch or stitch possess letters with no dots (mohmalah...

Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been f...

A case based reasoning application that generates poetry versions of texts provided by the user is presented. Cases consist of a sentence of prose (used as retrieval key) associated with a corresponding poem fragment (used as starting point for the solution). Adaptation takes place by combining phonetic, metrical and lexical information about the words in the different sources the prose message...

Girolamo Fracastoro was a true Italian Renaissance man: he excelled in literature, poetry, music, geography, geology, philosophy, astronomy and, of course, medicine to the point that made Charles-Edward Armory Winslow define him as "a peak unequaled by anyone between Hippocrates and Pasteur". In 1521 Fracastoro wrote the poem "Syphilis Sive de Morbo Gallico" in which was established the use of ...

This commentary responds to Eric Magrane’s welcome focus on the possibilities of ‘climate geopoetics’ as a way accessing and thinking environmental crisis differently. It explores problem approaching general through particular affordances that poetry provides in making this leap. In addition, it questions veneration poet poem and, building experiments both poets academics, argues for embrace hy...

The paper presents a reconstruction of the automatic poetry generation system realized in Italy in 1961 by Nanni Balestrini to compose the poem Tape Mark I. The major goal of the paper is to provide a critical comparison between the high-level approach that seems to be suggested by the poet, and the low-level combinatorial algorithm that was actually implemented. This comparison allows to asses...

This paper presents and evaluates a novel system for computer generated poetry. Framed within contemporary theoretical trends in the evaluation of computational creativity, we investigate how evidence of generative process influences readers’ opinions of computer generated textual output. In addition to a technical description of our system, we present results from a study asking respondents to...