Poetry Writing Tools

Haiku Generators | Poetry Generators | Poetry Text Manipulation | Poetry Games | Comprehensive Poetry Guide

Haiku Generators

• Haiku Madlibs : Fill out the text fields to generate 16 haikus, madlibs style - using templates from the masters, including: Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Shuson, and Soseki.
• Interactive Poetry Generator : Generate a random poetry form: couplet, quatrain, blank sonnet, haiku, tanka, renga.
• Haiku Turbo Generator : Click the Generate Haiku button. Haiku Turbo Generator will randomly insert nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions into the haiku templates of the masters: (Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Kato Shuson, Soseki)
• Interactive Haiku Generator : Input text and generate random haiku using famous haiku as templates.
• Haiku Discom­bobulater : Paste your haiku in the field and press Discombobulate! The Haiku Discombobulater will mix up your words and create a new haiku from them.
• Haiku-a-Tron : Press the button to generate haiku.

Poetry Generators

• Shakespearean Sonnet Generator : The sonnet generator will grab lines at random from Shakespeare's sonnets to create an entirely new sonnet.
• Love Poem Generator : Generate a love poem in a mad-libs style, using the format of the famous love poems by ee cummings, Edna Saint Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Pablo Neruda, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare.
• Rimbaud Poem Engine : Select a line from a Rimbaud poem from over 20 drop-down menus, then click "Create Poem" to see your curated Rimbaud Poem Cutup.
• Poem Generator : The AI-powered Poem Generator generates a poem by using words you have entered in the field below as well as words pulled from our author dictionaries. The generator then shuffles the words and selects random words to insert into the poem. If you don't wish to enter any of your own words, you can still generate a poem just using words from our author dictionaries.
• Poetry Generator : Push the button to automatically generate a poem!
• Diastic Poem Generator : Generate a poem similiar to the Acrostic style.
• Interactive Poetry Generator : Generate a random poetry form: couplet, quatrain, blank sonnet, haiku, tanka, renga.
• Automatic Square Poem Generator : Click the button to automatically generate a new, random Lewis Carroll-style Square Poem - made up of 6 lines of 6 words each, that reads the same across or up and down.
• Title-o-Matic – Random Poem Title Generator : Generate a random title for your poem...

Poetry Text Manipulation

• Poem Collage : Enter your poem and click Generate. Poem Collage will generate your poem as a series of draggable lines. Rearrange the lines to form a new poem.
• Acronym Poem Generator : An acronym poem is constructed using the first letter of each word in a phrase or name to create a new word or phrase, similar to an acrostic poem, but instead of spelling out a word or phrase vertically, it creates a new word horizontally.
• Acrostic Poem Generator : Generate an acronym poem from the words you enter. The Acrostic Poem Generator utilizes the first letter of each word to either make a acrostic poem.
• Reverse Poem : The Poem Reversograph Machine will reverse the text you enter. For example, "How do I love thee?" will become "thee? love I do How"
• Interactive Square Poem Machine : Enter your own words in the form and the Interactive Square Poem Machine will create a new square poem from your words.
• Poetry Gyroscope : Enter replacement words and watch the poetry gyroscope dynamically evolve the poem.

Poetry Games

• Madlib Poem : A madlib poem is a fun and creative way to write poems using a fill-in-the-blank format using poem templates from famous poems.
• Electronic Poetry : Similiar to magnetic poetry. Create poems using the words of your favorite authors or create magnets from your own text. Includes author kits for: Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Francesca Lia Block, André Breton, Poppy Z. Brite, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Angela Carter, ee cummings, Hilda Doolittle, Brett Easton Ellis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Comte de Lautréamont, The Smiths, Anaïs Nin, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Oliver, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Anne Rice, Arthur Rimbaud, J.D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Robert Smith, Gertrude Stein, Donna Tartt, Michelle Tea, Tristan Tzara, Oscar Wilde.
• Poem Builder : Flip 3 cards to build a poem - one: the subject of the poem, two: the poetic form you should write the poem in, and three: 10 words you should incorporate into the poem.
• Exquisite Corpse : A writing game that originated in the Surrealist movement of the early 20th century. The game involves a group of writers who each contribute a sentence or phrase to a collective work without being able to see what the other writers have written. Add a word or line to the exquisite corpse poem - started in 2000!
• Poetry Stamp : Poetry stamp will randomly generate lines of poetry, which you can then modify by changing or removing words.
• Letter Link Poetry : When we play Boggle, we then like to use the words we found to write a poem, using each word to start each line of the poem.
• Ring Game [Vowels vs Consonants] : Use letters to chain together words to write poems.

Comprehensive Poetry Guide