Tribute to NFT Poets

Conversation with
Sasha Stiles

The Summer 2023 issue of Rattle features a Tribute to NFT Poets. NFTs are non-fungible tokens, using a blockchain to make a permanent, collectible digital record of something—in this case poems. Turning poems into collectable art opens up many new opportunities for creating and sharing poetry, and the dozen poets in the issue are at the cutting edge of introducing poetry into this technology. In the conversation section, we talk to Sasha Stiles, who trained an AI language model on her own poetry, creating “Technelegy,” a transhuman alter-ego and writing partner. The interview attempts to explain the blockchain and explore the places poetry might go in the future. The open section, meanwhile, features the usual eclectic mix of poetry on any topic, from sugar to Shaq, from drag shows to Vietnam.

	NFT Poets
	Gregory Betts	The Towering Text U
	Ana María Caballero	Mammal One
	Maya Clubine	Welcome to Paradise
	Katie Dozier	Em Dash
	Pierre Gervois	Income I
	Johnny Dean Mann	Slow Gods #6
	George Pestana	Dust to Dust
	Sarah Ridgley	Midnight Confession
	Joanne Rush	Orchestra
	Sasha Stiles	We Exist Inside Each Other
	Justin Tagg	Offset
	Dick Westheimer	Sometimes a Poem
	..
	Open Poetry
	Lana Hechtman Ayers	When You Say You’re from New York City
	Penny Campbell	Sugar
	Luisa Caycedo-Kimura	Queridas Tías
	Denise Duhamel	Another Summer of Love
	Angela Russo Gartner	What It’s Like to Live That Long
	Leslie Gerber	Neglect
	Gary Greene	A Poem about Not about Getting a Dog
	Ed Hack	Our Tribe
	Barbara Hamby	Box Ode
	Nicholas Holt	Free Association
	Athena Kildegaard	Report from a Distance
	Matt Mason	The Issue of Rattle
		Why Instead of Begging My Mom …
	Traci McMickle	10 Things I Learned …
	David Oates	Farthing
	E. P.	Hit and Run
	Mary Ellen Redmond	In English Class, Discussing Signs & Symbols
	David Romtvedt	Watering the Trees
	Kelly Sargent	Haiku & Senryu
	Lisa Shen	Sixteen Seconds
	Gray Thomas	Speaking of Birds
	Bruce Weigl	Thinking about Her
		Outside Quang Tri City, 1968
	Carson Wolfe	Birth Name as Alternate Ending
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	Conversation
	Sasha Stiles
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	Cover Art
	Mark H. Fitzpatrick (web)