Monday, November 13
- In class:
- Lecture and discussion of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s work
- Assignment:
- Read:
- Write a post in which you discuss two of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s digital poems, focusing on how the poem’s design enhances the content.
Wednesday, November 15
In class:
- Lecture and discussion of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s work
Assignment:
- Read:
- Contexts:
- “Incident” by Countee Cullen
- Ben Johnson’s Travesty Generator
- Generative Pre-Trained Transformer
- From Travesty Generator:
- poems from Negative Money
- Contexts:
Friday, November 17
Asynchronous class:
- Read: excerpts from Travesty Generator and Negative Money (available here)
- Write a post in which you discuss at least two of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s Travesty Generator and Negative Money poems in support of a larger argument about how their poetic practice engages computations in interesting ways.
- Post by Saturday, respond to a classmate by Monday.