“View from Inside My Pattern Recognition Machine”

Posted on March 4, 2026 • Words by Angie Vorhies • Art by Antonia Contro

Note: This collaboration is part of our “Signs of Life: Artists and Writers Respond to AI” special folio (click to see them all!).  The original call for submissions is here. We asked four artists to provide images from their notebooks–that deeply human dream-draft-drift space.  We then provided four prompts.  This writer responded to prompt #3: “”I Am Not a Robot” Consider this phrase offered so often on websites that then ask us to identify the traffic …

Tagged: Broadsided Responds, Drawing, Ecopoetry, Parenting / Parenthood

“Tall(grass) Prairie Song”

Posted on April 1, 2024 • Words by Angie Vorhies • Art by Kara Page

Collaborators’ Q&A What inspired you to bring your work to Broadsided? Poet Angie Vorhies: When I was teaching English in China in the late 1980s, the student pro-democracy movement was gaining momentum. On the campus where I taught, wall posters went up in support of student demonstrations happening around the country, demanding freedom, human rights, and political reform. Every time a new poster went up, crowds gathered to read and discuss the ideas contained within …

Tagged: Ecopoetry, Mixed-Media, Pastoral / Anti-Pastoral, Rural