This site features poems that are written with the help of robots, and read by robots.

Click here to listen to the poems.

Now you may ask, how can robots write poems?

A while back, I created the Google Poetry Robot, which suggests words to write next by looking at popular phrases on the Internet that use the last few words you typed. I even got one of my robot-assisted poems published in a poetry magazine (SFU High Altitude Poetry), and that's when I got excited.

Of course, with the power of modern text-to-speech technology, it's pretty easy to get a computer to read a poem. But interestingly enough, each robot "voice" seems to take on a character and personality of its own, and it is sometimes pretty hard to shake the feeling that the robot might actually mean something.