hAIku: A Guide to Slow Poetry with AI

Hi, I'm Sam Illingworth, a poet, educator, and researcher based in Edinburgh. I explore how people can use AI more slowly, reflectively, and humanely through my project Slow AI.

Welcome to hAIku: A Guide to Slow Poetry with AI. This guide brings together my background in poetry and education with the Slow AI ethos of pausing, noticing, and treating technology as a partner rather than a driver.

The suggested price is £3, but this guide is available on a pay-what-you-can basis. You are welcome to download it for free, or to offer more if you would like to support the work of Slow AI.

Highlights

• A gentle introduction to the history and practice of haiku
• Reflections on what haiku are (and are not) in English
• Prompts you can use with or without AI to spark writing
• Real examples of hAIku written with these prompts