Phraselette: A Poet's Procedural Palette
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Current AI-powered writing tools predominantly enforce prescriptive interventions, failing to support the exploratory, transformative, and reconstructive practices central to experimental poetry. This paper introduces “materiality-aware writing support” — a novel paradigm that prioritizes poetic agency and experimental openness by embedding lightweight, context-sensitive language model capabilities directly into the creative workflow, rather than replacing or disciplining the author. The system integrates retrieval-augmented lexical/phrase exploration, context-aware textual deformation, and non-linear editing mechanisms. Evaluated longitudinally with ten published poets, the framework significantly increases willingness to engage in textual experimentation and enhances diversity in generated素材. It represents the first implementation achieving organic alignment between large language model capabilities and the epistemic logic of experimental poetics, thereby establishing a new pathway for AI-augmented creative writing that balances technical efficacy with humanistic autonomy.
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📝 Abstract
According to the recently introduced theory of artistic support tools, creativity support tools exert normative influences over artistic production, instantiating a normative ground that shapes both the process and product of artistic expression. We argue that the normative ground of most existing automated writing tools is misaligned with writerly values and identify a potential alternative frame-material writing support-for experimental poetry tools that flexibly support the finding, processing, transforming, and shaping of text(s). Based on this frame, we introduce Phraselette, an artistic material writing support interface that helps experimental poets search for words and phrases. To provide material writing support, Phraselette is designed to counter the dominant mode of automated writing tools, while offering language model affordances in line with writerly values. We further report on an extended expert evaluation involving 10 published poets that indicates support for both our framing of material writing support and for Phraselette itself.
Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
Misalignment of automated writing tools with writerly values
Need for flexible support in experimental poetry creation
Development of Phraselette to aid in text search and manipulation
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Material writing support for experimental poetry
Flexible text finding, processing, transforming, shaping
Language model aligned with writerly values
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