I have a lot of ideas rolling around in my head regarding chapbooks; some involving speculative poetry and some not.
I’ve recently completed a project whereby I used ChatGPT to generate poems based on weather data for random American cities, so it would make perfect sense to have the next chapbook use that project as a starting point.
It really wouldn’t be hard to pick either a specific state and compose a predetermined number of poems based on a single day’s weather within that state.
Or I could focus on a single city and create a chapbook based on a 14-day weather forecast. This approach would allow for a deeper exploration of a city’s weather patterns over time.
Either these projects would basically be looking at these places as if they were under an x-ray light, missing large amounts of detail we normally take for granted, but capturing glimpses of patterns that would not be seen any other way—at least that’s the hope.
Either option would start with a raw set of poems to work with within a week or two. What will take longer, though, will be putting together an editing process that gives me more control over the finished pieces. I want the chapbook(s) to serve as proofs-of-concept, demonstrating the combination of artificial intelligence and human creativity to enhance and inspire the artistic process.
The heart in the iron…
(composed by me with AI using an Allpoetry account devoted to such experiments)
Moreover, I envision incorporating multiple media into the chapbook to complement the poems:
- Photographs and videos (real and surreal)
- soundscapes
- spoken text. etc.
I would also explore the possibility of adding interactive elements, such as QR codes that link to multimedia to the poems, giving them literally more dimensions.
Who knows – maybe this will captivate someone’s imagination by inviting readers to engage with weather and poetry and technology in a new and profound way.
Alrighty then…enough dreaming. Time to get to doing.
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