Onchain poetry seems as alive as it ever was, with an explosion of freshly minted poems in the past two weeks. It's good to see so many poets creating new work. Still predominantly on Tezos, as well, but also on other chains.
And it's not just poetry itself that excites. In the past two weeks, there were two collections that are poetry-related (and created by poets) that I thought were certainly worth a special mention.
First is the collection Murder by (Loco)motive, created by OddWritings. He is a true OG onchain poet, who keeps experimenting on the edge of Web3. His crafts wonderful poems and then publishes them, looking for what is the best way to utilise the blockchain landscape. Now, he is turning his poem Murder by (Loco)motive into an AI project, where he uses groups of 3 words from the poem to prompt AI art. Every piece is created by another set of 3 words from the poem. You can mint these pieces on different blockchains, for example Polygon.
The second collection is by Sasha Stiles, who needs no introduction in this space. Next to her ground-breaking poetry, she also creates other art. Her most recently minted project is titled Biblio-tech, in which she re-imagines books and writing tools. The collection hold beautiful pieces, such as the Keyboard For Jaded Poets.
In this issue, I have aimed to add previews of the poems in the list. As the embeds for Objkt don't work as hoped, I have used Rarible as source for the previews of Tezos-minted poems. Unfortunately that did not work for all the poems listed. I will keep looking for better ways.
On to the poetry
Melancholic Odyssey
by Leon Faesulis on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Within
by Ashwini Dodani & Sueartens on Ethereum
Experience and collect here
Reading ONE: i am the invisible poet
by Linda Laforge on Tezos
Experience and collect here
they fell
by Gomp_art on Tezos
Experiment and collect here
Φ
by Aether & Nonconceptualism on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Φ (Deluxe)
by Aether & Nonconceptualism on Tezos
Experience and collect here
remember this
by Linda Laforge on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Untitled
by Antecristo on Tezos
Experience and collect here
autumn settles
by Linda Laforge on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Build on Cheesecake
by ChrisCoCreated et al on Base
Experience and collect here
Untitled
by Antecristo on Tezos
Experience and collect here
A Few Drops
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Skyline
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Stray Dog
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Poema Pictura Loquens
by Sasha Stiles on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Chipping Away
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
The Cow's Strut
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Insomnia
by Linda Laforge on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Predawn Rain
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Fault
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Another World
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
After Divorce
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Too Many Deer
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
A Lot
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Ut Pictura Poesis
by Sasha Stiles on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Sleeping In
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
RAW
by aether & Nonconceptualism on Tezos
Experience and collect here
No Step
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Cocreated dance of consistency
by Arjan Tupan on Zora
Experience and collect here
Behind the Ordinary
by Emanuel Souza on Ethereum
Experience and collect here
Permissionless FC
by Arjan Tupan on Zora
Experience and collect here
School Days
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Another Day
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Sobre Transparência, Governos e Blockchains
by Emanuel Souza on Tezos
Exprience and collect here
huggin' You
by Marta Gazzola on Tezos
Experience and collect here
the shiver
by Gomp_art on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Even the Hinges
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Seer Travelogues
by Antecristo on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Windswept
by The Art of Haiku on Tezos
Experience and collect here
Summer's End
by Timothy Green on Tezos
Experience and collect here
sensual erasure
by aether on Tezos
Experience and collect here
morality
by Gomp_art on Tezos
Experience and collect here
dreamlike erasure
by aether on Tezos
Experience and collect here
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