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PF – Call for Submissions to Broadsided Press. Theme: Signs of Life: Artists and Writers Respond to AI
Submission Guidelines
Submit a poem/flash prose of 30 lines/200 words (or less) responding to one of the four prompts below.
We will select four (or more) to publish as broadsides alongside the notebook pages artists have provided (you may indicate in your submission cover letter which notebook inspired your poem, but we will determine the pairings).
Prompt 1: “I Am Not a Robot” Begin with this title, offered to so many of us, so often. How can you convince us?
Prompt 2: “Only I can see ___” The authority of the individual is a press against the “generality” and “aggregate” of AI. What can only you see?
Prompt 3: HOMOPUNKT: This more technical prompt asks you to send us work using only one kind of punctuation, and to use too much of it. (Homo = one; Punct = punctuation; K = Punk). Is it the…. , the \\\\\ the ((((, the ????, or even the ‽ ‽ ‽ ‽? AI would not want you to use such crazy-excessive stuff, use it!
Prompt 4: What’s on your Golden Record? Send us an Epistolary poem to alien life. The Golden Record was sent into space on the NASA Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Launched in 1977, it sought to connect, in a human way, with other life. What would you send?
Broadsided seeks poetry and prose that is evocative, riveting, and not too esoteric. Broadsides are out on the streets, and we hope that they compel all kinds of people to stop, read, and consider. We want them to draw in readers, not push them away. That said, we want smart, difficult work. Work that challenges and speaks strongly.