http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/poetic-machines-03/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:29:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/poetic-machines-03/#comment-1692 Annie Finch Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:07:11 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=520#comment-1692 The Darwinian Poetry site is fun and addictive. It is oddly similar to the experience of defining words to donate grains of rice at freerice.com. Whle the one set of judgements about words is supposedly a creative judgement based on opinion and the other an objective judgement based on fact, the certainty on the Darwinian site feels as certain and the "truth" aimed for just as real. It would be fascinating to track different people's preference patterns and correlate them with their demographics etc. Thanks for this link, Annie The Darwinian Poetry site is fun and addictive. It is oddly similar to the experience of defining words to donate grains of rice at freerice.com. Whle the one set of judgements about words is supposedly a creative judgement based on opinion and the other an objective judgement based on fact, the certainty on the Darwinian site feels as certain and the “truth” aimed for just as real. It would be fascinating to track different people’s preference patterns and correlate them with their demographics etc. Thanks for this link, Annie

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