Works
Taper is an online literary journal for computational poetry and literary art, published twice yearly by Bad Quarto.
Taper #6 invites submissions in response to the theme A Throw of the Dice. The title is inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolirá le hasard” (“A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance”) and we encourage submissions that play on its themes or visual style. We also seek submissions that address randomness, uncertainty, chance, dice used in games, and other perceptions of the number 6—works that take this opportunity to reflect on the notion of a sixth sense, premonitions, predictions, using dice for divination, and meditations on luck, cheating (i.e. loaded dice), and fairness. Alternatively, works could address abstract aspects of the number six, such as its relations to geometrical figures (cubes, hexagons) or poetic forms (iambic hexameter, sestets, sestinas, etc.).