On Monday, The New Yorker announced The New Yorker Poetry Bot, a bot that will send a poetry excerpt at random every day for ninety-two days via Twitter and Facebook Messenger.

For the uninitiated, Twitter and Facebook bots are computer programs that parse information in real time and post information independent of a human user. As Rob Dubbin writes in a November 14, 2013 piece for The New Yorker, to create a bot, one needs to write one into a modern programming language.

The magazine collaborated with Courtney Stanton and Darius Kazemi—the creators of @staywokebot and the Madam Eva bot—on The New Yorker Poetry Bot. The excerpted poetry will come from poetry editor Paul Muldoon’s and poetry coordinator Elisabeth Denison’s selections from The New Yorker’s archives. The selection includes work by Joseph Brodsky, Ada Limón, Audre Lorde, Dorothy Parker, and Ocean Vuong, among others.

See The New Yorker’s instructions on how to install the bot.

Related reading: Due to widespread harassment, propaganda, and misinformation on Twitter from bots—including bots that obtained large audiences with automatic responses to President Trump’s tweets—Twitter has rolled out new anti-abuse tools, Mic reports.

But big data can be a force for good, says Jason Bloomberg, writing for Forbes; competitors must use the powerful tools of big data, “or risk losing everything.”

Image Caption: from Dorothy Parker’s “Cassandra Drops into Verse,” as shown by The New Yorker’s Twitter bot.
Credit: The New Yorker