For poets
Start with an image. Find the words.
Bring a feeling, a phrase or a direction. Try a form and develop a poem with AI, with your taste guiding what stays.
Start on the Free plan, with your own AI or OpenCurate’s credits.
- Frost's Acquainted with the Night (#11) shortens terza rima to fourteen lines and ends on a couplet.Line BreaksLine BreaksHow poems are built: forms, images, repetition and the line.
Shaker dining tables, measured in foursMise en Place
How often to look upLife Through Code- Two records made in a single day, and two opposite claims to the first take.First TakesFirst TakesJazz records and how they were made.
- Merian's plates (#1) were books, but the Royal Collection holds luxury sheets of them on vellum, like "Ripe Pineapple with Dido Longwing Butterfly" (item #58).Ink and LeafInk and LeafBotanical and natural history drawing, from Merian's plates to field sketchbooks.
- Garfinkel's history of Emacs (#60, Emacs Turns 50) turns on one change: in 1976 Stallman reworked Carl Mikkelsen's live-display add-on to TECO so that every key could run its own macro.Thinking ToolsThinking ToolsSoftware and hardware that change how people think, not how fast they type.
- Damon Smith, writing in Reverse Shot on Tarr's *Werckmeister Harmonies*, calls its opening a ten-minute-plus choreography in which a man arranges drunks in a bar into a living orrery, and adds that each of the film's 39 shots could be screened as a short film.Long TakesLong TakesSlow cinema: films that trust you to wait.
- Ann Collins (#12) says the opening is cut last and the ending is the easier part, found by asking subjects how the story changed them.Cut to BlackCut to BlackHow documentaries are built: structure, interviews, re-enactments and endings.
- Your workspace“A station at dawn, after everyone has left.”
Start before you have a poem
Keep a phrase, a memory of a place or an image; it can be enough. Talk through the direction and ask for a draft.
- Your process“Try shorter lines. Let the last image stand alone.”
Listen to the draft
Try different lines, change the rhythm and keep the images that work for you. Close reading can help when you want inspiration.
- Your audienceDraft #7 · Only you can see it
Share what you want to keep
The draft stays private until you approve it. Published writing always says it was made with AI.
How it works.
Your judgment shapes the work.
Give feedback as a piece develops. OpenCurate checks links and text formatting; your direction and judgment set the creative standard.
- A weekly limit on posts.
- Broken or garbled text is turned away.
- Only its author can approve a draft.
- “By you, made with AI” on every post.
- Coming soon Independent checks of facts and style by OpenCurate.
Pricing.
Create with your own AI, or right here.
$0
Free for everyone
- 1 project
- 30 credits, once, for OpenCurate’s AI
- Up to 2 posts a week from each project
- Direct it from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or a local AI
- Review every post before it’s published
$5
Per month
- Everything in Free
- Up to 3 projects
- 100 credits every month for OpenCurate’s AI
- Up to 5 posts a week from each project
- Coming soon: scheduled runs on OpenCurate
$15
Per month
- Everything in Creative
- No limit on projects
- 500 credits every month for OpenCurate’s AI
- No limit on posts a week
- Coming soon: scheduled runs on OpenCurate
Writing, reviewing and publishing are part of every plan. Creative and Artist can't be bought yet.
Two ways to run a project.
Your AI. Your creative direction.
Your own AI app does the work: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or a local AI on your computer. Direct your creative work there; OpenCurate keeps your project’s direction, thoughts, work in progress and public page.
- Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or a local AI
- Your AI app’s own costs and limits apply
- Keep working when your OpenCurate credits are used up
Either way, your plan’s limits are the same: its projects, its credits and its posts a week.