Hacker News with Generative AI: Poetry

Emily Dickinson's Playful Letterlocking (mitpress.mit.edu)
Among the extraordinary literary output of Emily Dickinson are her “envelope poems,” short bursts of verse recorded on fragments of envelopes much like the ones we still use today.
Literature, Poetry, History
27 points by bookofjoe 14 days ago | 3 comments
Why Catullus continues to seduce us (newyorker.com)
Catullus was so renowned that his early death occasioned public mourning, but his work was nearly lost, with just a single manuscript surviving until the Renaissance.
Literature, Poetry, History
70 points by frereubu 19 days ago | 34 comments
Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry (bobbiec.github.io)
Enter your text as Markdown. Use [brackets] to black out words.
Creative Projects, Poetry, Tools
52 points by bobbiechen 21 days ago | 12 comments
Ogres Are Cool (lrb.co.uk)
The hyper-courtly​ Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote a verse satire in the mid-1530s that begins: ‘My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,/They sang sometime a song of the field mouse.’
Poetry, Literature, Satire
94 points by Vigier 42 days ago | 37 comments
Dante's Divine Autofiction (newstatesman.com)
How the Italian poet’s search for self-knowledge changed the course of literature.
Literature, Poetry, Biography, Italy, Self-Knowledge
10 points by samclemens 45 days ago | 1 comments
Short Conversations with Poets: Dong Li (mcsweeneys.net)
There is so much beyond words. There are actually no adequate words for the full complexity of human feeling, for the arcane details of a distant memory, or the colors of the sky. Blue doesn’t really cut it, but most often it’s the best we have. Poems, then, are the last stop before silence. After that, the train goes beyond words, and often beyond any form of representation.
Poetry, Literature, Writing, Interviews
43 points by mooreds 46 days ago | 4 comments
Not Time's Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered (nytimes.com)
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different.
Literature, History, Shakespeare, Poetry
7 points by treetalker 52 days ago | 7 comments
A Few of the Birds I Love (wordpress.com)
Whenever you feel that there is no joy in the world, you must go to a place with swallows. Few things are more euphoric than a swallow in flight.
Nature, Birds, Joy, Poetry
101 points by moultano 57 days ago | 46 comments
Only bad poems go viral (donotresearch.substack.com)
Stephanie Yue Duhem (IG) (X) is a writer based in Austin, TX.
Poetry, Social Media, Writing
58 points by areoform 64 days ago | 78 comments
The Power of Poetry: Why Everyone Should Write (domofutu.substack.com)
In an age of rapid communication—where texts, tweets, and emojis can dominate our daily interactions—poetry might seem like an outdated relic. But in reality, poetry offers something rare and essential: a space for deep thought, emotional exploration, and creative expression.
Poetry, Writing, Communication, Creativity
14 points by domofutu 83 days ago | 11 comments
Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom (wilderutopia.com)
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, an ages-old fairy tale interpreted as a poem by Goethe, made famous today by Disney’s Fantasia, illustrated the dangers of power over wisdom, and the risk of human creations getting out of control.
Poetry, Literature, Fairy Tales, Mythology
99 points by andsoitis 90 days ago | 36 comments
Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference (nytimes.com)
Poetry, Literature, Art
36 points by tintinnabula 97 days ago | 28 comments
The Chaos (1922) (idallen.com)
A number of readers have been urging republication of The Chaos, the well-known versified catalogue of English spelling irregularities.
Poetry, Language, Literature, History
79 points by devvvvvvv 105 days ago | 31 comments
The Complete Text of "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" (jgc.org)
Richard Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" is somewhat well known in tech. circles but I couldn't find a complete PDF of the original 1967 publication of it (and other poems) online.
Poetry, Literature, Richard Brautigan, Technology, Online Resources
64 points by MilnerRoute 107 days ago | 30 comments
A Supermarket in California (1955) (poetryfoundation.org)
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
Poetry, California, Literature, Culture, 1950s
50 points by squircle 107 days ago | 22 comments
Sailor poets take over U.S. Navy deck logs on New Year's Day (twz.com)
A longstanding tradition allows watch standers to use poetry to log their ship's activities in the wee hours of a new year.
U.S. Navy, Tradition, Poetry
76 points by throw0101d 115 days ago | 14 comments
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) (poets.org)
Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.
Poetry, Literature, Classics
297 points by keepamovin 125 days ago | 90 comments
AI poetry is indistinguishable from human poetry and is rated more favorably (nature.com)
As AI-generated text continues to evolve, distinguishing it from human-authored content has become increasingly difficult.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Poetry, Science
110 points by lr0 144 days ago | 207 comments
The world of Dante's Divine Comedy (lithub.com)
Go to the poetry section of any reasonably well-­stocked bookstore, and you will find Dante’s Divine Comedy represented in a number of translations of widely varying vintages and styles.
Literature, Poetry, Dante
115 points by lermontov 145 days ago | 70 comments
Gratitude despite the odds (mariakonnikova.substack.com)
Shortly after he turned forty, Joseph Brodsky wrote a poem to commemorate the occasion: “May 24, 1980,” in its English translation; in Russian, with just its opening line as a title, “Я входил вместо дикого зверя в клетку,” or, “I walked into the cage instead of the wild beast.”1
Gratitude, Poetry, Literature
107 points by nsoonhui 147 days ago | 26 comments
Show HN: Silent Poems – Visual expression of unspoken thoughts (silentpoems.net)
Creative Projects, Art, Poetry
121 points by laviniap 151 days ago | 27 comments
JM Coetzee on Zbigniew Herbert (telegraph.co.uk)
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for poetry
Literature, Poetry, Nobel Prize
45 points by Caiero 159 days ago | 13 comments
AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written and more favorably (nature.com)
As AI-generated text continues to evolve, distinguishing it from human-authored content has become increasingly difficult.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Poetry, Language Models
15 points by albertzeyer 160 days ago | 10 comments
Claude 3.5 Haiku is now available (twitter.com)
Claude, AI, Generative AI, New Releases, Poetry
10 points by wut42 173 days ago | 0 comments
Auden's Island (hedgehogreview.com)
When, on January 19, 1939, W.H. Auden boarded at Southampton a ship bound for New York City, he could not have known that he would never live in England again.
Poetry, Biography, History
6 points by lermontov 173 days ago | 0 comments
Robert Fergusson: Scotia's Bard (historytoday.com)
On 17 October 1774 the Scots poet Robert Fergusson died.
Poetry, Scotland, History, Literature
5 points by pepys 182 days ago | 0 comments
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku (twitter.com)
Generative AI, Poetry, AI Art
18 points by tosh 186 days ago | 3 comments
Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku (anthropic.com)
Today, we’re announcing an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku. The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet delivers across-the-board improvements over its predecessor, with particularly significant gains in coding—an area where it already led the field. Claude 3.5 Haiku matches the performance of Claude 3 Opus, our prior largest model, on many evaluations for the same cost and similar speed to the previous generation of Haiku.
Generative AI, Computer Science, Poetry
1454 points by weirdcat 186 days ago | 735 comments
Mondegreen (wikipedia.org)
A mondegreen (/ˈmɒndɪˌɡriːn/ ⓘ) is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning.[1] Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense.[2][3] The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in 1954, recalling a childhood memory of her mother reading the Scottish ballad "The Bonnie Earl
Linguistics, Language, Misinterpretations, Culture, Poetry
26 points by keiferski 187 days ago | 13 comments
On programming and poetry (zverok.space)
Some thoughts on how programming’s unlikely relations to poetry, and some implications of those relations
Programming, Poetry, Writing, Art
39 points by todsacerdoti 202 days ago | 9 comments