Fish

by Nick Montfort


poetry and fish

have certain things

in common


like, it’s really annoying

to pick out all those

little bones


but there are differences

for instance

I like fish


Nick Montfort often writes computational, constrained, and formal poems. Not always. His computer-generated books range from #! (Counterpath, 2014) to Golem (Dead Alive, 2021), with Narcissystem coming from Anteism this year. His digital projects include the collaborations The Deletionist (with Amaranth Borsuk and Jesper Juul) and Sea and Spar Between (with Stephanie Strickland). He lives in New York City.