Sally Bennett Boyington’s new poetry collection, Deep Roots in a Dry Place, is available for purchase.

About Deep Roots in a Dry Place

Join poet Sally Bennett Boyington on an intriguing journey through the desert accompanied by ChatGPT and image-generating AIs. Each of the illustrated pages that resulted from this curiosity-driven adventure contains a poem written by either the author or ChatGPT, set opposite each other for comparison. Photographs accompany the author’s poems, while AI-generated images in various styles are juxtaposed with the ChatGPT poems.

The fusion of technology and human creativity in these pages showcases how far AI has come in recent years, as well as revealing the nuances that continue to distinguish human expression from machine learning. Deep Roots in a Dry Place offers readers a fascinating holistic experience where art, poetry, and science intertwine.

About the Author

Sally Bennett Boyington spent decades exploring the Arizona desert on foot, by horseback, and in the pages of books. Sally has written several novels set in Arizona, including a series based on the prehistoric Hohokam Indians. As a copy editor and publishing coach, she has helped several hundred authors see their words in print. Sally currently writes about Arizona in absentia, for she lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with her husband and four-footed friends.