House of Trust is a generative poem, created with Stephanie Strickland, to honor free libraries. Its structure is based on Alison Knowles's poem and sculpture, A House of Dust (1967), created in association with James Tenney and generally considered to be the first computer-generated poem.
Publications:
Originally published in The Volta: Evening Will Come 44 (2014)
Included in Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953-2023, edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort, MIT Press and Counterpath Press (2024)
Discussed in:
Scott Rettberg, Electronic Literature (Polity, 2018)
Orchid Tierney, The Politics and History of Digital Poetics: Copyright, Authorship, Anti-Lyric, in The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900, Daniel Morris, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
