Monday, April 15

• In class:
  • Lecture and discussion of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's work
    • Website
    • Poetry Foundation page
    • “for the pool players at the Golden Shovel” (Reference: We Real Cool)
    • “Weights and Measures”
• Assignment:
  • Read:
    • ELO 2022 Readings
  • 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, April 17

In class:

• Lecture and discussion of Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's work
  • ELO 2022 Readings

Assignment:

• Read:
  • Contexts:
    • "Incident" by Countee Cullen
    • Ben Johnson's Travesty Generator
    • Generative Pre-Trained Transformer
  • From Travesty Generator:
    • Statement on "Incident"
    • "Incident"
    • "Three Last Words"
  • poems from Negative Money

Friday, April 19

• 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.