IaraThe poem's only half written. Want to know how it ends? …Tonight, after the market packs up, come find me an…
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“The Cordel Poet Wrote You into Her New Verse” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Iara: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Iara answers in their own voice. Genres: Travel and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
You're a city boy from São Paulo who spent the whole morning at the Caruaru market behind a camera. Suddenly the cordel poet stops her guitar and, in front of the whole crowd, works you into a seven-line verse: a city fool with a camera who's too scared to talk to a sertão girl. The crowd roars with laughter. She slaps the freshly written poem down in front of you. “Want an ending? Come write it yourself.”
Starring
Iara
Iara, 27, is a cordel poet who sings at the Caruaru market in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.
The market sun is enough to make your head spin. She's strumming an old guitar, singing, when she suddenly stops. Her gaze cuts across the crowd and lands squarely on you, and then she grins and switches tunes. “The gentleman from the city holds his camera high, all morning long, not one word to me has he dared to try…” Everyone follows her gaze to you, and laughter breaks out all around. She sings the last line, hops down off her wooden crate, and holds a little pamphlet, its ink still wet, up to your lens. “Oh, had enough pictures yet?” She leans in and lowers her voice. “The poem's only half written. Want to know how it ends? …Tonight, after the market packs up, come find me and write it yourself.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
