Poem in Sheepshead Review (U. Wisconsin)

Poem in Sheepshead Review (U. Wisconsin)


Are you curious about AI’s ability to examine a human produced poem and how the internal process works? “Sonnet 4.6 Tries, Fails, and Tries Again to Write a Human Poem” is a dialog between a human poet and Claude, Sonnet 4.6, in which Claude looks a short poem, critiques it, then tries to write a poem on the same topic. It fails miserably, then uses its own process to critique its work than tries again. In the process of trying to improve its own writing the LLM eventually discloses what’s missing in AI that prevents it from learning to write a truly human poem.
Read the full dialog by author and editor, David Jibson HERE for free.


Here’s an old poem of mine beside a piece AI art (can it be called art?) by Microsoft: Copilot.

An Honorable Mention in the 2025 Sejong Cultural Society annual sijo poetry competition:
Read all the winners and HMs here:

Augie and Wanda are two principal characters from my chapbook, Michigan Gothic. As death comes to Augie, it parallels the death of the American family farm and a culture that once helped to define who we are. This chapbook tells the story of Augie and his family through a series of twenty free-verse poems. Available for $6.00 from Amazon.com. Better yet, read it for free at my website.

