Using words or ideas from one of our readings in Week 5, create your own computational poem.
To do this, adapt one of the “Generative Poems” python templates provided on the “Computational Poetry Workshop” website, provided on the schedule in Week 5. (You may also use the html/javascript for “Taroko Gorge” as a template from which you create your poem.)
Use this opportunity to really experiment with the templates and models by seeing what you can add and/or change. Passing versions of this assignment plug a few new words into an existing template; more successful versions of this assignment change more about the template and/or make a very interesting intervention in the template or its outputs in terms of themes, ideas, or poetic possibilities.
Depending on the form your portfolio takes, you might paste your code into a google document link to the document; or, if you stick to using the workshop site, you can provide a link directly to the Trinket window; or, you might embed the trinket into a web page.
The goals of this activity are
- to creatively put in practice Strickland, Flores, and/or Cramer’s ideas about digital literature
- to poetically respond to Montfort’s poem (and thus join an established tradition in e-poetry)
- to practice (at a very basic level) some of the coding concepts and skills used in creating e-poetry
