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Experiment 116 (Counterpath, 2021) is a creative deformance of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 using automatic machine translation. The poems begin in their original Shakespearean English and are then moved to another language, then another, then perhaps a third, and then back to English. In this way, the poem moves, the poem lives; it is reincarnated, reproduced, misunderstood, and mistaken. The essay that concludes the book explores how our practices of reading, writing, and revision can benefit from the use of
Mosteirin has designed and led several workshops based on the work used to create Experiment 116 . For an abreviated version, see my guided prompt "Defamiliarized English" for the Isolation Journals (November 14, 2021). Mosteirin has three poems in the Summer/Fall 2021 issue of The Southampton Review .
“You Will Know Us By Our Song” was published by The Rumpus in May 2020.