NEA Fellows and A.I.

NEA Fellows and A.I.

January 21, 2023

Contributor News and Other Dispatches

Contributor News

Please join us in congratulating the 2023 cohort of

, which the National Endowment for the Arts recently announced. This is a poetry year for the NEA, and we are honored to have two

Atticus Review

contributors among the fellows.

 

is a poet and artist whose videopoem "

'" appeared in our most recent issue's mixed media collection.

writes poetry as well as fiction, and in April, 2019,

Atticus Review

published her poem "

."

Both authors are just two of the fellows whose poetry you should seek out and whose future work you should keep an eye out for. Again, one more round of applause for all of this year's fellows!

Elsewhere Among Writers

This week I returned to campus for the semester, where the one topic of conversation across the department was the potential use of

in writing student essays, specifically

software.

Some instructors worry about the increased risk of A.I.-driven plagiarism, but the bigger question is whether or not ChatGPT or similar software could replace the need for writing programs altogether. I'm hesitant to make any predictions, but I was genuinely curious. So, the other day, I tried my hand at ChatGPT to see what wonders I could cull from it.

First, I asked it to write something in my style, which I had to work really hard to describe. Then I prompted it to write a newsletter for

Atticus Review

. The program gave me a vague, bland update for "the Atticus Review newsletter." It also assumed our blog, the Attic, was a store that sold "vintage literature." I was unimpressed. Of course, I could feed the program a template and copy-and-paste the outcome into our newsletter and only have to change what I needed, the dates and names that weren't current. But the effort it would take to make readers think I wasn't just chucking some copypasta together would outweigh whatever time the program might have saved my creative juices.

As one colleague put it, the current A.I. program is just a very advanced version of predictive text, the same technology in my email that assumes I want to reply "Thank you!" to a form rejection.

For now, I'll keep writing, and I hope you do too.

Peace,

Keene Short

Editor-in-Chief

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

BOOK REVIEW

Ode in the Eleventh-Hour:The Keatsian Narrator of Hans von Trotha’s POLLAK'S ARM

by

Nicole Yurcaba

"By the end of Pollak’s Arm, readers have not only experienced the brief, penultimate hours of Ludwig Pollak, but through Hans von Trotha’s writing, they have entered a transient space, much like Keats’s Grecian urn." 

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

The second in a series of dispatches from Ukraine, by Olha Svyripa

Part 2: Getting Out of Kyiv

"Another train, another crowd. Each station flooded the train with more people, more suitcases, more pet carriers. I remember watching them come in and stay all the way to the end of the red subway line. We all knew where we are going. We all couldn’t stop to think for how long."

 

SUBMISSIONS

We are

for CNF submissions! We are also open for book reviews and mixed media.We will be open for poetry and fiction submissions at the end of December. Stay tuned for more!

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