Predictive Text Poetry Project

  • Jessica Kashdan-Brown

The Predictive Text Poetry Project is a collaborative poetry project that experiments with predictive text. Right now, we are using social media on our phones more than usual. The constantly updating custom dictionary of your phone's predictive text reflects the conversations you, personally, have been having via your phone recently, and can provide a powerful insight into the collective consciousness of the present moment. Every 3-4 days I post a prompt on my website and on my social media channels. Using the given prompt as a starting point, I ask people to add to it using their phone's predictive text options to complete the phrase, or produce a paragraph of up to 25 words. I then collate the responses, cutting and rearranging sections, to create one poem for each prompt. These poems are posted on the website and on social media. https://jkashdanbrown.wordpress.com/ptpp/