STILES API

This episode comes on the heels of the launch of a new work, LOREM IPSUM VARIORUM , currently on view at Palazzo Citterio in Milan, presented in collaboration with Italy’s National Museum of Digital Art and the historic Grande Brera. (Talk about past meets future!) Beginning with the strange pseudo-Latin of Lorem Ipsum -- placeholder text that derives obliquely from the corrupted remains of an anc...

For this episode, I'm revisiting “Ghost in the Machine,” the opening poem from my 2021 collection Technelegy (p. 14 in the paperback edition). The poem grew out of years of reading, wondering, and worrying about consciousness, identity, memory, digital immortality, and the evolving relationship between humans and technology -- questions that have become newly urgent in the age of generative AI...

A few years ago, I set out to make a podcast about poetry and technology, my lifelong obsessions and the core of my work as a writer and artist working primarily with language. I was thinking about it less as a podcast and more as an extended studio visit: an auditory space in which to think with and through poems, to explore "poetic intelligence" as a vital literacy for our AI age, to t...