Well, Canadian poet Christian Bök has pretty much blown Horace away with his plan to encode a poem into bacterial DNA. The plan is simple enough, if completely insane.

While in Europe researching the origins of a poem, Timothy L. Stinson, ... The DNA Behind the Poem By Caitlin Moran January 9, 2009. It was a case of invention by necessity.

At Coach House Books, poet Christian Bök (pronounced “book”) is stuffing signed and lettered copies of his first collection of poetry in 14 years, The Xenotext: Book 1, into zippered wallets ...

DNA stores poems, a photo and a speech. ... DNA is also compact, lightweight, and can potentially remain intact for thousands of years if stored in a dark, cool environment.

A genetic storage device has been used to “download” all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets on to strands of synthetic DNA, in a breakthrough which could solve the problem of storing ever-growing ...

The Creative Zone is a showcase of artwork, poetry, short stories and other creative work by elementary and middle school students. The students in Anna Lindemann’s eighth-grade gifted scienc… ...

UK scientists demonstrate how DNA could be used to archive digital data, encoding Shakespeare's sonnets and other information in the "life molecule".