👽 Lee Tusman

Quilt Poems

2024, 2025

Quilt Poems is a NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generating Month) project to create a book of generative poetry. I encoded a library of common quilting patterns as data, selected a corpus of words, then created software that creates the poems. The software selects from the quilt styles and bodies of text to generatively create these visual poems in the shape of a quilt pattern.

The software was written in Lua and is open sourced. One can use it to develop infinite new printable books of quilt poetry.

In 2025 I've added some additional variations on the quilt poems, including working on printing a chapbook and a daily quilt poem site with a new quilt-poem each day.

Output

Printable book PDF file

Project code repository on GitHub

Daily Quilt Poem site.