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Robotic Poems: A Writing Workshop with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
27th March 2023 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM BST
In this workshop, participants will learn basic coding elements to create a simple poem generator. The emphasis is on play and experimentation, with some background information on literary techniques. Participants will experience how computational poetics and computational thinking can jumpstart or become part of a creative writing process.
No experience with programming or coding? No problem! This workshop is geared towards absolute beginners and embraces “challenge by choice”. While ‘poems’ is in the title, creative writers of other genres are certainly welcome!
Speaker Biography
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of Travesty Generator (Noemi Press), a book of computational poetry that received the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work and longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Their other poetry books include How Narrow My Escapes (DIAGRAM/New Michigan), Personal Science (Tupelo Press), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press), and But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise (Red Hen Press). Their fifth book, Negative Money, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2023. They are an Associate Professor in the departments of English, Africana Studies, and Art & Design at Northeastern University. They also direct the Chautauqua Institution Writers’ Festival.
