Poetics

Poetics is a visual poetry app focused on developing concepts of semiotic poetry and decentralized art.

The app is an ongoing project by Seth Indigo Carnes, an artist based in New York City. Poetics is used in over 150 countries, across languages and cultures.

Art features:

• mutable text
• chance operations
• ephemeral missives
• gestural semiotics
• nonlinear flux
• meta tangents
• intermedia cutups
• multimodal love

App features:

• works on all iOS devices
• portrait and landscape compositions
• curated set of font choices
• always editable, saved work
• custom photo filters
• minimal text styling and color
• physics-based interactions
• nuanced gestural control
• zoom in and out for detailed work
• edit mode for advanced work
• write in multiple languages
• speak your words into app

Music in App Store preview courtesy of Patrick Golden and Jim Clouse of Parkwest Records.

Feedback or thoughts? [email protected]

Metta

Poetics has a new Edit mode!

Tap Edit to select one or more words, then move, resize, or delete them together. New alignment and straightening tools make it easy to line words up, space them evenly, or turn a whole group horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. There’s also a new alignment grid for more precise placement. You can choose when it appears in Settings.

These tools make arranging poetics faster and more precise, while staying playful.

We’d love to see what you make; come share it with the Poetics community on Discord!