Erasure Poetry
Find the poetry in STEM-based language by using this “blackout” tool to create an erasure poem. Plug in even the most convoluted scientific material (I plugged in a passage from Traffic and Highway Engineering by Nicolas Garber and Lester Hoel) and you can build a brief, fun linguistic experiment.
Created by poet & computer scientist Katy Gero, Metaphoria is “an online tool that generates metaphorical connections between two words. It’s designed to give you ideas for poetry, essays, or stories. It augments your abilities, rather than replacing them.”
I played with it to see how some STEM terms and ideas might function in a poetic context:
