Ten Million Palindromic Sonnets
A computational exploration paying homage to Raymond Queneau's Cent mille milliards de poèmes. Each sonnet is a complete palindrome from start to finish, letter by letter.
In a world suffocating under its own complexity, creating meaning within rigid structures is reassuring.
Interactive & Digital Work
As my Three Children Tidy Up their Rooms
An anagrammatic transformation between a prose poem and sonnet. Both parts contain exactly 560 characters—the same letters arranged to tell two different stories about chaos and mathematical precision. Watch the letters move in real-time.
Palindromic Poetry
Selected Palindromic Poems
A selection of palindromic poems.
Under the Bedroom Skylight
A sonnet with palindromic rhymes: keep/peek, emit/time, wolf/flow, loops/spool, part/trap, doom/mood, and peels/sleep.
Structural Semiotics
CAT G[enome]
A bilingual sonnet found in the genome of a cat, using only nucleotide letters (A,C,G,T). Discovered through computational search on the Open Science Grid.
Bilingual Sonnet
The linguistic straitjacket of a bilingual immigrant poet, this is a letter-by-letter palindrome where the octet is in Spanish and the sestet is in English.
Experimental Forms
Autumn's End
A generalization of the tritina with fractional lines that mathematically derive from their predecessors.