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I really don't see the literary merit in a lot of these pieces, but obviously this is an interesting step forward...

• ashark 10y ago
  "I Ate Curly Fries And Shaker Fries" wouldn't be out of place in well-regarded literary magazines. That slice-of-life with references-only-the-author-gets but maybe-sometimes-they-resonate-in-an-oblique-way-with-the-reader poetry is pretty common. Get an author with a decent bio[1] to submit it and I bet you could get a similar-quality machine-generated work published in Ploughshares or similar. [1] MFA, edits a local poetry magazine with a circulation of 100, accepted submissions to some mid-level publications, one or two "chapbooks" out.
  • yolesaber 10y ago
    Try submitting it. It will get rejected immediately becasue a) villanelle's are hokey and played out and b) it's obvious this was written by a machine. There's no poetic turn, there's nothing worthwhile to derive from it. It's word salad. There's a reason why Oulipo, whose members have written many algorithmic poems plays and novels, despised chance generations of text.