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Originally Posted by W.F. Lantry
Somewhere out there some english major who knows how to code is staring at a screen right now. Her idea of poetry doesn't begin and end with Jabberwocky, a coder favorite. And she doesn't care about the silly pop culture stuff this Bok guy is writing about. She's hard coding for hard lit. And when we see what she's doing, she's going to blow us away with what she can achieve...
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But, hey, why stop there, Bill? With the ability to accomplish what you describe, it would be a cinch to develop related software, aimed at taking over and maximizing the submission and publication process. Set up a data base of all known literary journals and their acceptance tendencies, establish an initial screening system to aim at, say, the easier-to-sell second tier for starters - new Bosnian publications, that kind of thing - possibly even introduce a feedback loop so that editor requests for modifications are automatically satisfied, establish your targeting parameters properly so that the right poems are submitted to the right journals, and you're set! Poems can be automatically generated and submitted, leaving poets free to do the fun stuff, like jabbing at each other on internet Forums. If they wish to. (This note, for example was produced by my new WiseAss Mark IV Geezertronic program. The data base and algorithms are so sophisticated that all I had to do was type in your name and a link to the thread.)