a visual poetry app

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About

Poetics is a visual poetry app, developing the concept of a mutable, object-oriented poetry in the realm of decentralized art. The app is an ongoing project created by Seth Indigo Carnes, an artist based in New York City. Poetics is used in over 150 countries, across languages and cultures, and in schools to teach a variety of subjects.
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FEATURES

Mutable Text

Chance Operations

Ephemeral Missives

Gestural Semiotics

Nonlinear Flux

Meta Tangents

Intermedia Cutups

Multimodal Love

SCREENS

VIDEO

A preview of Poetics v2. Music by The Missing Ones.

Universal

Poetics is universal, working on both the iPhone and iPad. The app also features landscape and portrait modes, for both poetic compositions and how they are viewed by device orientation.

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Connect with users of the app, share your work, hear news, discuss poetry + art, and more.