A New Taxonomy for Poetry

April 21 2011, 5:29 AM  by aparrish

The default list of subjects when browsing poems at poetryfoundation.org is super boring. "Social commentary"? Yawn. "Trees and flowers"? SNOOZEY. I made a Chrome extension that replaces each item in the super boring subject list with one of thousands of words, randomly selected from a scrabble word list. Bound to make your poetry-browsing experience pop with unexpected new juxtapositions and recontextualizations!

The screenshots below show the before and after shots. Download the extension here.

 

Tags

chrome, hacks, poemaday, poetry, poetryfoundation, taxonomy

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  • Apr 23 2011, 10:30 AM
    IFURLs (Twitter) responded:
    this is brilliant.