At this time, human beings are still
required. Our holistic neural interface
with the targeted subject is more effective
--"intuitively apt" is how it's termed

than a computer’s assessment abilities.

Albert Golbarth at Academy of American Poets

Albert Goldbarth at Poetry Foundation

Eric McHenry on Albert Goldbarth in Slate

What distinguishes most contemporary poetry from prose isn't meter or rhyme or even line breaks, but a self-conscious spareness and a slightly arch or elevated diction. These are the hallmarks of the poet laboring to achieve intensity, the byproducts of the "language distillation" process.

An Albert Goldbarth poem, by contrast, is wacky, talky, and fat.

Albert Goldbarth reads two poems (video)