Long before poems lived on a page, they were sung, chanted, and carried by memory — by bards at feasts, by wandering scholars, by court poets writing for emperors who could end their careers with a word.
Homer and Hesiod gave voice to Greek myth and rural life in the 8th century BC. Li Bai and Du Fu, friends and rivals of Tang dynasty China, wrote of wine and moonlight, war and exile. Ovid and Horace shaped the golden age of Roman verse — one exiled for his wit, the other beloved for his calm.
AIPoets is not a séance. It's a way of sitting with the actual lines these poets left behind, and asking them the questions people still bring to poetry today.
Six poets. Six empires. One shared craft: turning a fleeting moment into something that lasts.