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The paper reflects on the outcome of the project aimed at generating poems introduced by Zuzana Husárová and Ľubomír Panák under the pen name Liza Gennart and titled Výsledky vzniku/The Results of Creation (2020). It was created on the basis of a fairly wide database of texts provided by several Slovak publishing houses specializing in poetry (2 108 works, or 47 MB of pure text). The goal of the authors, holding the positions of the curators, was to become capable of producing their own feminist poetry. The outcome presented as poetry of a neural network can be interrelated to such phenomena as digital literature, new media or so-called assisted creativity (when texts are created by other than human beings). It develops the principles of conceptual art. The authors appropriate, manipulate with computer-generated material, compose it into the form of a poem as similar to a human poem as possible. This approach, which emphasizes a recipient's activity, challenges the ideas about poetry, literature and art communication. In addition, it raises questions about the fundamental principles, functions and possibilities of poetry surviving in new forms, in continuously changing communication environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]