ReRites 2026: Regen

Made entirely with Claude Cowork (2026)
A new data visualization of David Jhave Johnston's 2017-2018 ReRites poetry corpus

About This Project:
This interactive visualization maps 8,005 poems from all 12 months of the original ReRites project into a navigable neighborhood space. Each dot is a poem—hover to read. Proximity indicates similarity in vocabulary, style, and theme.

The Original ReRites (2017-2018):
Human + AI poetry. Generated by neural networks, edited by digital poet David Jhave Johnston. One book per month for a year. Published as a limited edition boxset by Anteism Books, Montreal (2019).

→ Read online: glia.ca/rerites
→ Buy: Boxset / Paperback

How This Was Made:
Created entirely via AI-assisted "vibe coding" in a single session using Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Cowork mode (Jan 2026). The poems were vectorized using TF-IDF embeddings and projected into 2D via t-SNE to reveal hidden structure. Full technical details →
Instructions: Hover your cursor over any dot below to read that poem. Dots near each other share similar vocabulary and themes.