{"id":3219,"date":"2023-11-06T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3219"},"modified":"2023-11-06T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:57:51","slug":"p-giant-robot-poems-anthology-seeking-submissions-with-the-theme-of-giant-robots","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/anovelapproach.ca\/submission_calendar\/event\/p-giant-robot-poems-anthology-seeking-submissions-with-the-theme-of-giant-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"P – Giant Robot Poems Anthology Seeking Submissions with the Theme of Giant Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nMiddle West Press LLC<\/strong>, an independent micro-publisher of military-themed and -adjacent literary projects, has issued a call for human-generated poems engaging with \u00a0\u201cGiant Robot\u201d technology themes. <\/strong>This is a “speculative poetry” market.What is a “Giant Robot” theme?<\/strong> For this project, the term “Giant Robots” can include examples of technologies in timelines both real and imagined, <\/strong>and of any size or (even formless) form<\/strong>. Living Ships. Loitering Drones. Taxi-cab AI. Robot Tanks. Virtual Soldiers. Space Explorers. Mecha-suits.<\/em> In short, any vessel for exploring themes of human-electro-mechanical-cyber interaction, connection, and competition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The working title of this project is Giant Robot Poems: Poetry About Mecha-Human Science, Culture & War<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Editors of the project write:<\/p>\n

Our intent with this project is to have fun<\/strong>, but also to illuminate, interrogate, and challenge <\/strong>(via the still-human domain of poetry!!!) the ways people think about emerging and future technologies<\/strong> such as robots and drones, Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybernetic enhancements, etc. <\/strong>We are looking for terrain-shifting, mind’s-eye-bending, firmament-rending expressions <\/strong>of new and future realities. Be provocative. Be poignant. Be human. Even if you write like a Giant Robot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ideally, many of the works submitted will engage such questions as:<\/strong><\/p>\n