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Poetry from My Mac

Mona Alvarado Frazier
poetweet screen shot
poetweet screenshot

I love poetry. I like reading lines from other people’s minds, all the time.

Today, I learned of poetry from a computer’s mind. Yes, an inanimate object making animate words into lines of a poem.

Poetweet searches through your original tweets and transforms them into computer-generated poetry. The site says they “track the data of your inspiration” and proceed to “analyzing your deepest thoughts.”

All you have to do is enter your Twitter handle, choose between a sonnet (14 lines), a rondel (French lyric of 2 stanzas of 4 lines, last one of 5), or the esoteric indiriso.

Isidro Iturat, a professor of Spanish literature from Buenos Aires created this new standard. Indriso is a poem formed by two terzains and two one-line stanzas (3-3-1-1), with free use of the number of syllables in its verses.

Here’s an example of my Twitter generated indiriso:

Black Heart

My Heart & Other Black Holes
River quality with camera-less
New wave of female-led titles

You Keep Writing | Write to Done
— And Still Do #librarians
Now That I No Longer Teach in One

Of their local public libraries

Your Manuscript’s New Best Friend

A rondel:

It’s free
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You win & Merry Christmas!
Dead & she is the only suspect.
My Town at Christmas
Publishing Internship Project

Newly Diagnosed HER2 Metastatic |
Yglesias, Algonquin
Are only cautiously optimistic.
There are new mountains. U Le Guin

Splendor for next-generation

Art World Gender Imbalance

The Irish Mexican Connection

Allen to Write and Direct TV Series

Violence, drugs, and depression.

A sonnet:

Best Friend
by AlvaradoFrazier

Tex-Mex and BBQ culture
— And Still #librarians
Women painted out of the picture
YA Books Featuring American Indians

Committed to agents or publishers
local public libraries
Butt Calisthenics for Writers
Serros: Author, Poet, Friend

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Black Authors and Self-Publishing
Latina producers, directors

Splendor for next-generation
Webinar Female firefighters and breast cancer
The author platform. It’s FEAR.”

Well, these poems may not make much sense, but the poems tell a story, my Twitter story. Now I love my Mac even more.

Have a great weekend, create poetry and have some fun.

John Riley, Latino Family Traditions, Mexican American War, Mexican and Irish culture, San Patricios, St. Patrick's Day

The Irish Mexican Connection

Mona Alvarado Frazier
Irish and Mexican Flags

There is an Irish connection in my family. My maiden name has Irish roots while my mother’s maiden name originates from Mexico via Spain. My nieces, one of whom is named Erin, are of Irish and Mexican heritage and I have a cousin born on St.Patrick’s Day. (Okay, that last one was a stretch).

Besides the personal connection, there are more Irish Mexican facts you may not have heard of:

Image of the flag carried by the St. Patrick Irish Battalion in the US Mexican War

1. The Mexican-American War of 1846-48:

Los San Patricios, led by John Riley, (Juan Reley was the name he enrolled in the Mexican Army) began with 175 immigrant Irish, German, English, French, and escaped African slaves from the southern USA and grew to over 700 men, the majority immigrants from Ireland. You can read more of their history in this 2014 post.

2. Mexican Irish beach towns:

San Patricio (St. Patrick). Villa Obregon (Alvaro Obregon -O’Brien- was the President of Mexico from 1920-24. Melaque, a version of the Irish word “Malarky.” There is no indigenous word called melaque.

3. Religion and culture:

The Catholic faith is one of the strongest connections between the two countries.

“Mexicans and the Irish are connected by their Aztec and Druid heritage to an earth-worshipping tradition, strong beliefs in spirit, life, family, and cultural gatherings.” Mexico Insights-Judy King

 4. Music:

Ireland has a full Mariachi group, Mariachi San Patricio. Dublin also has an annual Taste of Mexico festival. 

Mariachi San Patricio-Ireland
Mariachi San Patricio-Ireland

And for a musical break, let’s hear how they sound:

5. Rebels, Actors, and Artists:

Zorro, yes, the famous Mexican Robin Hood, was not a fable. Born William Lamport, he was the son of a wealthy Catholic family in Wexford County, Ireland. He used the name Guillen Lombardi but was not a Spaniard. He was an Irishman, educated by the Jesuits in Dublin.

Zorro Poster
Zorro Poster

Juan O’Gorman, the artist, and architect, was born in Coyocan, Mexico to an Irish father and Mexican mother. He built the home and studios of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. His brother, Edmundo, was an esteemed writer.

Actors Anthony Quinn, Sara Ramirez, and several others are Mexican Irish. Add comedian and director, Louis C.K to the list.

Sara Ramirez-Actor, Grey's Anatomy
Sara Ramirez-Actor, Grey’s Anatomy

I’m sure there’s an Irish Mexican food connection, besides Jose Malone’s or Carlos O’Brien restaurants, but I’ve never heard of a specific dish.

So, on St. Patrick’s Day, my family will enjoy our annual meal at an Irish (American) pub, maybe with a Harp Lager and celebrate our Irish Mexican connection.

Have a great weekend!