Text Generators
Edde Addad put together an interesting post concerning poetical text generators on netpoetic.com. The post describes and links to quite a few online resources including ePoGeeS by Addad. Additionally, it describes and links to historical systems such as Christopher Stratchey’s Love Letter generator from the early 50's. Stratchey and Turing were students together, and Turing wrote the manual of the Manchester computer that Stratchey used to create what some see as the Ur program of digital poetry.
Chris Funkhouser didn't include Stratchey's work in Funkhouser's book on the history of digital poetry, though. Probably because Stratchey doesn't call his work poetry. Funkhouser's study starts with the work of Theo Lutz (1959). In any case, David Link seems to be covering Stratchey's work adequately.
Addad is a doctoral student in Computer Science who did undergrad work in Creative Writing.
Hi bro, thanks for the link! just for the record, I got my PhD about a year and a half ago now. (FWIW!)