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Computational & experimental poet, teacher, curator, editor, researcher. Faculty at MIT & UiB. Lab/studio: The Trope Tank. Micropress: Bad Quarto
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Readings from & discussion of OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer Generated Text, 1953–2023 at MIT! Tuesday March 11 5pm Stata Center, 32-155 Free & open to the public Book sales thanks to the MIT Press Bookstore mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/event/2025-0...

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On the Off Center podcast of @cdn-bergen.bsky.social, Scott Rettberg interviews me & @lillianyvonne.bsky.social about the book we edited, Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 podscan.fm/podcasts/off...

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Body ID Equals Underscore Nick Montfort, 2025 8 pp., 4.25" × 5.5" The full title, and generating code, is the 198-character Web page on the front cover. Laser printed, cardstock cover, pamphlet stitched. 1st printing of 26 signed and lettered copies. $12. badquar.to/publications...

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Canada really respects its poets!

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Friends in Toronto, please join me & two OUTPUT contributors to launch the anthology on Monday 6pm Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

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Today my book of poems ALL THE WAY FOR THE WIN was published by Penteract Press: penteractpress.com/store/all-th... It begins with the birth of the universe & concludes with the eradication of the last human-authored poetic text. And it consists entirely of three-letter words.

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My New Year’s poem for 2025 is up at: nickm.com/poems/ny2025/ So far, no one has ventured a guess as to why it’s called “The Hours.”

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Just wrote about the 2024 National Novel Generation Month, which wrapped up on November 31 nickm.com/post/2025/01...

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Six of my poems from ALL THE WAY FOR THE WIN appear in the just-published issue 24.4 of DIAGRAM — thediagram.com/24_4/montfor... They consist entirely of three-letter words.

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Taper #13 : Superstitions (the Fall 2024 issue) is out! taper.badquar.to/13/ A gift for you all from author/programmers and editors, whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, both or neither. The 29 works are wide-ranging engagements with language and computation, and all are free software.

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Anteism has published my NARCISSYSTEM. The text is output from a program that simply describes itself exhaustively, down to the bit level. Smyth sewn, the book has a foil seal on the outside front cover and a special feature on the inside front cover. 48 pp. www.anteism.com/shop/narciss...

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Lookie here! Two of my @mitpress.bsky.social books made the list, both from the Platform Studies series www.polygon.com/deals/499835...

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New on the MIT Press Reader: selections from "Output," a new anthology showcasing seven decades of English-language machine-generated texts, long predating ChatGPT, with additional commentary from @docmofo.bsky.social

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The Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social is hosting a book launch on Friday at 15:30 CET for @docmofo.bsky.social & Lillian-Yvonne Bertrand's new anthology of computer-generated texts from the last 70 years. I am really looking forwards to seeing this book! www.uib.no/en/cdn/17449...

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NYC book launch for OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text 1953–2023! With me & @lillianyvonne.bsky.social, @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social, Robin Hill, Stephanie Strickland, Leonard Richardson Book Club Bar, 197 E 3rd St Monday Dec 9, 8pm Free, but RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

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This FRIDAY 12/6 here in New York City, I’ll be at the Center for Book Arts Winter Market, 28 W 27th St Floor 7, 4pm-8pm. My Bad Quarto table will have copies of OUTPUT (MIT Press & Counterpath, 2024) and many Bad Quarto publications, including OUR GENERATION (2024). Come buy books or just say hi!

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OUTPUT: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023 (co-edited w/ Lillian-Yvonne Bertram) is out from @mitpress.bsky.social & Counterpath! mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981... It’s been awesome to encounter texts & many author/programmers over the years. Glad to share this joy via this book!

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For 2024 #NaNoGenMo: THE FALL, an offhand, single-page tribute to Thomas E. Kurtz (February 22, 1928 — November 12, 2024). He was co-creator of #BASIC and made computing accessible to millions, including me. Program, in Yabasic: nickm.com/code/fall.yab Sample PDF: nickm.com/poems/the_fa...

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You don't want to miss this book! OUTPUT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF COMPUTER GENERATED TEXT, 1953-2023, edited by @lillianyvonne.bsky.social and Nick Montfort, and published by @mitpress.bsky.social): mitpress.mit.edu/978026254981...

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