The Unicode Ode#
March 2025
Date |
Publication |
Status |
|---|---|---|
April 27, 2025 |
Frontier Misfit Competition |
Rejected |
June 12, 2025 |
TrashLight |
Rejected |
October 7th, 2025 |
wildscape |
Rejected |
November 2, 2025 |
Infocalypse Arts & Literary Magazine |
Accepted |
Responses#
Dear Grant,
Thank you for submitting The Unicode Ode and The Invocation of Metric Code to Infocalypse Press. After review, we’re delighted to accept both pieces for publication in Issue 1: Recursion (January 2026).
These poems form a striking diptych on language and consciousness. The Unicode Ode renders human emotion in the syntax of code — an elegy written in symbols — while The Invocation of Metric Code reimagines programming itself as a devotional act, a hymn to recursion and renewal. Together they embody the magazine’s fascination with the spaces where machine logic becomes lyric, and where poetry begins to think for itself.
We’ll follow up closer to publication with proofs and formatting notes, and a bio request, but for now — welcome aboard, and thank you for helping us define what a recursive future sounds like.
—Kat Autiö, Editor-in-Chief, Infocalypse Press