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Plotting Poetry is a conference series focussed on computational and statistical approaches for the study of poetic texts, and of poeticity more broadly. This quantitative focus, this insistence on the formalization and operationalisation of texts, from simple pen and paper counting and compiling to complex algorithms, provides us with a number of paths to analyze, describe, interpret, attribute, classify, track and generally access the texts. The Plotting Poetry conferences bring together a friendly community of researchers, and articles rooted in the conference papers have given rise to several peer-reviewed collective volumes. The name of the group stems from an effort to translate a (perfectly serious) pun by the French modernist poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who in 1917 wrote that poets should “machiner poetry as has been done for the world”, where machiner is visibly used for mechanize even though the verb really means to plot, as one would plot a coup. As a group, we are plotting against our own limitations by trying to plot literature on graphs, devising mechanized approaches to dissect the mechanics of poetry. This year’s conference welcomes a focus on more popular forms of poetry, to give attention to wider uses of the poetic register besides classical high culture, which has often formed the bulk of poetry studies. Phenomena of peoples’ poetry include traditional or novel folkloric poetry in its various forms, but also everyman's occasional poetry, lyrics of folk, pop, rap, etc. songs, and the forms of poetry reaching the public nowadays, due to the wider accessibility of media channels and publication possibilities. As the popular forms of poetry are often created either on-site in live performance, or keeping in mind the rhythms and structures of music, we also invite researchers to investigate the performed poetry, and the connections between text and performance. We are also interested in how these various forms of popular poetry interfere with or differ from literary or high poetry. This folk and pop focus is not an exclusive one, and we encourage the submission of papers that use quantitative tools and methods in investigating poetry or poeticity, regardless of their link to popular culture. Besides, as has been traditional at Plotting Poetry conferences, works on other genres - popular or not - may also be included, provided that a mechanization or quantification apparatus is being used to explore their poeticity. Some of the topics to consider include but are not limited to: variation in oral poetry mutual influences of folklore and literary poetry poetry in performance metrical exactness and uncertainty representations of orality relations between poetry and song lyrics poetry in online environments spontaneity vs refinement in poetry contemporary folk poetry