#PoetryMonth2022

Everybody knows about the National Poetry Month (but why “National”?). We want to contribute to this moment of artistic sharing by publishing a poem each day. As we found no specific conceptual challenge to associate to this month we decided to publish a different generative poem each day. And, again, given to the lack of a thematic center, we decided to make formal constraints stricter than ever:

Each work is a cinquain written according to the paradigm of Adelaide Crapsey, i.e. 22 syllables distributed among the five lines in a 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2 pattern.
Each verse is composed by iambs, except the first and the last ones, which are free.
Each day a different theme is selected according to the list below. The list has been automatically generated by using the top N most frequent five letters word from the corpus Experience Project, the same used in our WordChains : Stream of Consciousness.
Each poem is an acrostic which forms the theme of the day.

The AI generating the poem is entirely written in javascript with the use of no external library, except for visualization (p5.js). For each theme it can generate thousands of different poems. Each day we select the one we prefer among the first 20 iterations.

A Theme per day

Day	Theme	Occ.
1-Apr	woman	41023
2-Apr	night	35784
3-Apr	heart	34006
4-Apr	month	25764
5-Apr	world	22647
6-Apr	house	19473
7-Apr	today	19238
8-Apr	child	19204
9-Apr	place	18299
10-Apr	dream	14412
11-Apr	point	13382
12-Apr	money	13336
13-Apr	mouth	11740
14-Apr	story	11347
15-Apr	stuff	10545
16-Apr	phone	10357
17-Apr	truth	9438
18-Apr	pants	7383
19-Apr	class	7261
20-Apr	front	6849
21-Apr	issue	6786
22-Apr	sense	6167
23-Apr	movie	5924
24-Apr	smile	5922
25-Apr	party	5755
26-Apr	light	5728
27-Apr	sleep	5486
28-Apr	voice	5259
29-Apr	fault	4815
30-Apr	piece	4678