Andrew Yoon is programing poetry

Ours is an era in which artificial intelligence is the hidden engine behind so much of society and culture, and so we’re proud to be presenting a fascinating panel featuring authors who engage with the increasing presence of AI in our world. Andrew Yoon’s collection of poetry, We Are Invited to Climb, presents partly computer-generated chance poems. At once a celebration of the impossible and the very real, the book uses groundbreaking new techniques in generative poetry. The world Yoon creates reckons with contradiction: the sameness of other and self, choice and constraint, sense and nonsense. Through whimsy and experimentation, Yoon taps into the depths of humanity-- the algorithm we all share. It’s going to be an astonishing conversation.

Andrew Yoon is a New York-based Korean-American artist involved in music, poetry, and computers. Lately he is writing poems that change, making sounds with code, and sharing his love of reeds through the Melodica Drone and Bach Quartet. He is the founder of the generative poetry focused small press Nothing to Say. As a free culture advocate, everything he makes and publishes is under copyleft licenses. He can be found online at andrewyoon.art.