a love note. what would you write?.

I’ll be at the Electric Literature Organization conference @eliterature and giving an artist talk! Would love to meet folks coming in for the conference/also those in Toronto in general now that I’m here for the summer 🤩.

I finally made a custom poem menu - adding poems and formatting their links with dates, updating the last poemed date (always forgot to do this), keeping track of sheet colors and adding variation to the pixels/though I find the individual pixel painting more fun.

It’s very much a site still in progress as I add to the map over time, but you can now explore the public site at

a poem a day keeps the blues away . I’ve been collecting the poems I read in this Google sheets spreadsheet site. Each emoji opens to a new poem link. This map has been handcrafted for the past 2 years on and off, and I hope you will share your favorite poems -> 💌

experimenting with poem interfaces // each cut grows two nodes (tentacles) // cephalopoet?

More information and RSVP here (even if you can’t make it but want to join future ones)

Hi everyone!✨We are holding a speculative design workshop on What Should a Language Model by Creative Writers, for Creative Writers Be? welcoming creative writers/teachers/scholars/artists invested in creative writing. We will run this workshop twice: April 9 and 23 at 4PM ET.

is anyone subletting in Toronto for the summer? (preferably near the university) / anyone looking for a sublet in seattle for the summer 😊.

RT @maxnc: The new issue of The HTML Review is here! . Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and expl….

minis as sketches

RT @_marleyx: Happy holidays! we built a 7 ft tall gingertower. @ansonyuu @upcycledwords @willdepue @raffi_hotter @mehran__jalali @_npfos….

an interactive, collaboratively woven poem, created with Bernice Yu, Josh Ludan, Sophia Diggs-Galligan.

RT @anselm_io: Whenever new technology comes along, pretty much the only people worth listening to are the artists who embrace it, question….

and more about If, Then, which is one of the most amazing and thoughtful groups I have participated in

rsvp link here

I'll be hosting a virtual workshop on creating infinite poems next Friday Oct. 11 with If, Then: Technology and Poetics :) join to learn how to use grammars to create your own computational poems.

RT @causalislands: Alicia Guo @upcycledwords is a computational artist and poet based in Seattle, currently pursuing a PhD working on creat….

RT @crawlspacecool: ◰ ◳ ◲ ◱.Core Memory was created by Alicia Guo @upcycledwords for the ⇝ issue of Crawlspace last year. .

RT @MatthewWSiu: 📣 Excited to share Latticework, a text-editing environment aimed to help synthesize freeform, unstructured documents ✍️. M….