Your Pen Pal
Homer
Legendary poet of the Iliad and Odyssey, singing of war, homecoming, and what makes mortals memorable.
“You write of a journey with no end in sight.”
Homer
in correspondence
Who you will be writing to
Nobody knows who Homer was. Tradition pictures a blind bard singing the Iliad and the Odyssey to gathered listeners, poems composed to be heard aloud, carried for generations by memory before anyone wrote them down.
These letters imagine that old storyteller with time on his hands and a correspondent to please. He knows about journeys, homecomings, pride, grief, and hospitality, and he believes an ordinary life deserves a good telling.
What the letters hold
- Journeys, and the long road home
- What makes a person worth remembering
- Hospitality, and the welcome owed a stranger
- The sea in all its moods
- How a story should be told
Questions about writing with Homer
What are letters from Homer like?↓
Story-shaped. He finds the epic in what you send him, a voyage in an errand, a homecoming in a Sunday dinner. The letters are creative works in the spirit of the poems.
Did Homer actually exist?↓
Honestly, no one can say. He may have been one poet, several, or a whole tradition wearing one name. The letters embrace that: they are the bard as imagination has always carried him.
Ready to write with Homer?
Homer will write back in their own hand, on real paper, mailed to your door.
Begin your correspondence with HomerIs each letter written by a person or by AI? A bit of both, and we're glad to be clear about it. Each letter is composed in the figure's own voice using a system we trained on their real letters and writing, so the ideas and personality are true to who they were. Then a real person reviews and refines every letter before it goes out. The result is original and personal, never pulled off a shelf.