Alex Turner
aluxt.bsky.social
Alex Turner
@aluxt.bsky.social
lexicographer /// phonaestheticist /// calligrapher /// utahn /// someone/somebody /// writing in Poetry and New England Review
maturnerpoetry.com
what does it say about neural-network tech that they say they've created PhD-level AIs, but have yet to create an illiterate AI?

i think it says the A ain't got no I.
September 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I firmly believe the smallest meaningful unit of language is the metrical foot.
August 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
what do you prefer in poetry, either in what you consume or what you make:
sound or sense
identity or dwelling
viscerality or imagination

for me, these are far from being exclusive categories, but:
sound>sense
identity<dwelling
viscerality=imagination
March 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I don't like when folks say "you're your life's main character"—I'd rather be a slightly more minor character:

Samwise>Frodo
Faramir>Aragorn
Wemmick>Pip
Mary Garth>Dorothea
Kronk>Kuzco
February 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM