Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)
2018
A Gutenberg Poetry Corpus by Allison Parrish
“Allison Parrish creates and releases “A Gutenberg Poetry Corpus”, a public domain resource comprised of “approximately three million lines of poetry extracted from hundreds of books from Project Gutenberg.” Allison automatically filters the larger Gutenberg canon to hone in on poetry, to create a verse-specific corpus that becomes foundational to a number of important generative poetry projects.”
-Sasha Stiles
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Movements
Computer Text, Generative Poetry
Filed under
- Ideas
- Computer Text, datasets, Generative Poetry, poetry, text corpus
- Technologies
- public domain datasets
- People
- Allison Parrish, Sasha Stiles
- Works
- A Gutenberg Poetry Corpus
- Organisations
- Project Gutenberg
Echoes across time
- 1677 · Artificial Versifying by John Peter
- 1440 · Johannes Gutenberg’s Printing Press
- ca. 2300 BCE · First Known Author Is a Woman
Le Random editorials
- Sasha Stiles and Martha Joseph on Language as Technology, Peter Bauman, September 10, 2025
- Sasha Stiles on Writing Poets, Peter Bauman, January 25, 2024
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 9—AI Era (2010s) with Tyler Hobbs, Helena Sarin, Rhea Myers & Gene Kogan — listen with transcript on Le Random (30 Jul 2024, 51 min). Chapter 9’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify