Poetry after language. Presence as form.
NerdPoetry is a post-digital constraint practice for the 2030s. When text becomes infinite and presence becomes optional, the work relocates poetry into the body: breath, weight, duration, repetition, and location. One body, in one place, reaching safe fatigue. The 52-week protocol is documented here as one practitioner’s experiment (2026), but the practice itself is open: anyone can begin, adapt, or share their own versions.
Why NerdPoetry Matters
In a world flooded with infinite language and AI-generated text, NerdPoetry explores the last non-replicable poetic resource: human presence. By shifting constraint from words to body, time, and space—testing whether the formal mechanism that makes a sonnet work can generate comparable structures in physical action—it extends historical experimental poetry into a post-digital, embodied practice. Safe, replicable, and globally legible, it demonstrates that poetry can still surprise, provoke, and matter—even when everything else can be everywhere.
Explore
- [Manifesto] — principles, boundaries, and the logic of the practice
- [Protocol] — the 52-week structure, exercises, and safety rules
- [Why Here, Why Now] — relevance, contemporary contribution, and cultural context
Start Practicing
Begin with the first exercise.
End when the body signals stop.
No harm. No endurance heroics. One location, one body, one moment.
NerdPoetry builds on global and Italian traditions of experimental, performative, and constraint-based poetry—from Oulipo to contemporary embodied practices—while extending them into a post-digital, body-focused, presence-driven exploration.