Big tech tells us to consume more, and it’s numbing/distracting/sedating/choking/killing us, which is why I started Living Poet Society. I earned my degree in English writing, and my desire is to give away what I’ve learned, to provide you tools to make it easy to choose creativity over consumption, and to build a community of artists who are ready to see, speak, and live again.

People are worried AI is going to take the jobs of artists, and maybe it will. But no one can steal the joy of creating from us. That’s why I’m here—for the love of the game (and to reclaim the em-dash). I don’t write for the final product, I write because I enjoy it. An AI engine cannot give you the satisfaction of having toiled to create something true, good, and beautiful.

Words have power. In the beginning, God created the world with words, and I doubt that’s a coincidence. If we are made in the image of a creative God whose Son is called the Living Word, then we too have both the ability and duty to create.

If you want to join me in this countercultural act of creating, it would be an honor to have you.

-Mary Grace Curran