Beam Verse

This webpage complements the paper Poet Admits // Mute Cipher: Beam Verse to Find Mutually Enciphering Poetic Texts by Cole Peterson and Alona Fyshe, which appeared at EMNLP 2016. The work was inspired by Christian Bok's Xenotext Experiment, which produced the world's first mutually enciphering poems. This website is home to software and resources aimed to help those brave enough to attempt to write under this burdensome constraint.
Interested in writing mutually enciphering texts, but don't know where to start? Want to try writing in a language other than English? Feel free to write cpeterso [at] uvic [dot] ca with any questions.

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Mutually Enciphering Poems

Have you written a mutually enciphering poem? Submit it to cpeterso [at] uvic [dot] ca!

Written by: Cole Peterson


as i fed her cow beef
set her many tiny lines
to tow fish bits

her bison
her jaw
is ages ago


in a mob you get doom
now you wash fish jason
we wet many dawn

you danes
you lit
an icon ice


Written by: Cole Peterson


i wedded him at vino
nodded at adam

as moot
im seen

me
a wife
was

is a favor

a horror was in kate
terror in iris

im seen
as moot

so
i halo
him

am i liked