# Phraselette: A Poet's Procedural Palette

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06335 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.06335/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 17 of its 74 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 Mar 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 17 of 17)

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- [A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.14117/) (2024)
- [AI Suggestions Homogenize Writing Toward Western Styles and Diminish Cultural Nuances](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.11360/) (2024)
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- [Inspiration through Observation: Demonstrating the Influence of Automatically Generated Text on Creative Writing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.04007/) (2021)
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- [Persona-L has Entered the Chat: Leveraging LLM and Ability-based Framework for Personas of People with Complex Needs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.15604/) (2024)
- [The Dearth of the Author in AI-Supported Writing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.10289/) (2024)
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- [Most Language Models can be Poets too: An AI Writing Assistant and Constrained Text Generation Studio](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.15926/) (2023)

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- [Computational Scaffolding of Composition, Value, and Color for Disciplined Drawing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.17268/) (2025)
- [Texterial: A Text-as-Material Interaction Paradigm for LLM-Mediated Writing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.00452/) (2026)
- [Human-AI Interaction Traces as Blackout Poetry: Reframing AI-Supported Writing as Found-Text Creativity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.09605/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

According to the recently introduced theory of artistic support tools, creativity support tools exert normative influences over artistic production, instantiating a normative ground that shapes both the process and product of artistic expression. We argue that the normative ground of most existing automated writing tools is misaligned with writerly values and identify a potential alternative frame-material writing support-for experimental poetry tools that flexibly support the finding, processing, transforming, and shaping of text(s). Based on this frame, we introduce Phraselette, an artistic material writing support interface that helps experimental poets search for words and phrases. To provide material writing support, Phraselette is designed to counter the dominant mode of automated writing tools, while offering language model affordances in line with writerly values. We further report on an extended expert evaluation involving 10 published poets that indicates support for both our framing of material writing support and for Phraselette itself.