Host Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, programmer and professor, Allison Parrish. They talk about Articulations, Parrish’s first book of poetry, why she wanted to publish a book, “the threat of permanence,” Allison’s background in linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and how she made the poems in Articulations. They discuss phonemes, word vectors, semantic and phonetic similarity and proximity, and the post-processing procedures she used, as well as the ways in which computer-generated language is the same or different from “intention-typical poetry.” They also discuss J.R.R Tolkien and Gertrude Stein, not being very interested in narrative, and what Parrish hopes practitioners of computer-generated poetry will do next and what she hopes they will not do.
EXTRA MATERIALS FOR EPISODE 46Books by Allison ParrishArticulations (Counterpath, 2018)
Allison’s massive list of completed, ongoing and upcoming projects can be found on her website!
Other Books and Writers/Makers Mentioned in the EpisodeChase Berggrun’s R E D (Birds LLC, 2017)
HOME/BIRTH by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker (CreateSpace, 2017)
Virtual Muse by Charles Hartman (Wesleyan, 1996)
Louis Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers (Stinehour Press, 1978)
Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers by Michele Joy Leggott (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)
Gertrude Stein
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg (Shambhala, 2005)
Alison Knowles’ House of Dust
Nick Monfort
Daniel Shiffman
Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling
Ronald Johnson
J. R. R. Tolkien
Jackson Mac Low
Other Relevant LinksCounterpath Press’s Using Electricity series
Project Gutenberg
National Novel Generation Month
Joshua Goren
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