An AI-Luminated Manuscript: New Romantic Poetry and Art

Erato, the muse of lyric and erotic poetry, respondst o the suitors flooding her inbox. Behold-a racy week of pasionate diary entries.

Jeff Wright's mojo is in fine form in this new collaborative project. Jeff is Erato here, the female muse of lyric poetry, particularly of an erotic nature. Wright also messed with AI, giving it prompts that resulted in some of the images in this book, which Barbara Rosenthal developed with Jeff to create and collage. Wordplay abounds and innuendo, if not downright chortles. Jeff writes, My lover's tongue is a tonic / whose lyrics are a potion. It seems we're already drunk on Wright's jubilation and flexibility. The images push the words, and the words push back in this unique poetic work.

-Vincent Katz, poet