Poetry

More light verse than serious poetry, these two online volumes were created using my program Icon Poet, in which one writes by clicking on word categories.

Half‑Random Rhymes, and Cream of Ether.

Half Random Rhymes Cream of Ether


Back in 1997 I got a big kick out of seeing five of my fridge‑magnet poems included in this anthology with a foreword by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky:

The Magnetic Poetry Book of Poetry


This poetry generator appeared in the San Francisco disk magazine Tech Noir:

A Season In RAM

A Season in RAM was inspired by the works of the French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891). It has a vocabulary of 6,000 words, and I wrote it in AmigaBASIC in 1987. Here's A Season in RAM on YouTube, generating 17 poems and reciting them in the Amiga's classic Eastern European robot voice.