The first time I read this Molly Brodak poem, I didn’t get it. But, as a great poem does, it chipped away at me over years until one day I read it and it hit me. I couldn’t stop thinking about those last lines, so I wrote my own version to try to understand what shifted (1/3)
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A biennial award for book-length works of literary fiction, co-presented by New Directions, @FitzcarraldoEds, and @GiramondoBooks.
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Probably an over generalization but I find most writers fall into one of two camps: writers who dedicate themselves to the work of writing because they believe in the written word’s power to connect & change people, and writers who do so because they think they specifically Know
AI writing discourse reveals something I was shocked to learn when I reached my MFA: many people do not write from a place of curiosity and wanting to connect, but rather from a place of certainty and wanting to be singularly heard / seen as intelligent
This is a cool example of how you can use AI to help your writing—without relying on it for any actual writing. From @jasminewsun https://t.co/wOZdULWpwG
It’s useless to fight this fight with the idea that human writers are just “better”. We saw how ai images improved, and writing will too. Denying that it’s good is not sustainable. We have to instead insist that the value is tied to the process of creation rather than the product
AI writing should be rejected based solely on the fact it was created by AI. I don’t care if it is stylistically identical to human writing—if a human is not behind it, it has no meaning to me
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I’m always grateful when a journal asks for an author’s note, especially for this piece about heartbreak & its colors. You can read the poem in the QT below—
"Color Theory" is up on
@Missouri_Review ’s website as their poem of the week. Grateful for the honor of being a finalist for their Editors' Prize and for them publishing the poem, as well as this author's note :)
Check out the full poem here: https://t.co/3n3s2Cm75M
My poem "Micropsia", which won the James Hearst Prize, is in the most recent issue of North American Review. Thank you again to the editors for choosing this as a finalist, and to @DanezSmith for picking this poem as the winner