The Poet Laureate(s) of the Internet

Hello and welcome to the October issue of >: FROM THE SUPERHIGHWAY! For this issue, we're exploring the esoteric, mind-bending, and inspiring world of software-as-art and digital poetry. If you can believe it, this issue is almost a year in the making - I've been sitting on links to many of the projects you're going to read about for many months now, waiting for the right interview subject to pair them with. Luckily, we round out this month's issue with a conversation with Neta Bomani - co-director of the School for Poetic Computation - about their bold and experimental approach to digital education. Without further ado, let's get started! >: poetry that pushes back The first code art project we're looking at today is Taper - an "online literary magazine for small computational pieces" that releases semi-annually. Trying to coherently describe the kinds of pieces you'll see on Taper is to try to put them in a box - a task that, if you check out some of the pieces there, you'll find is…