Broadsided: Poetry, Prose, & Art on the Streets as Modern Broadsides

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WRITING WANTED:
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Deadline: March 5, 2010

"Turn" by Julie Evanoff.
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• New Vectors in Philadelphia and Providence.
• Introducing: Twitter fans, we're stepping it up. Gabrielle Calvocoressi joins the editorial team as our Virtual Vector at Large: @Broadsided.
• On the Street: This month—getting the essentials at the hardware store. Nails, paint, Broadsided:

Send your pics to us at broadsided@gmail.com. We'll post them!
• Be a Fan or a friend on FaceBook.

Think of it as web-enhanced grassroots guerilla art.

On the first of every month, a new literary/visual collaboration will be posted here for you to download. Free.

We hope you'll be inspired to print it and post it in your local haunts—coffee shops, libraries, office doors, telephone poles, etc. That will make you a Vector.

Vectors are posting Broadsided around the world.

Our goal is to create something both gorgeous and cheap.

We want to put literature and art on the streets.

Monthly updates and info about Broadsided for the press in pdf format.

Vectors, we hope you'll be inspired to tell your local paper or radio station about Broadsided — you are the story. You're a local person who is participating in an international experiment:

• About Broadsided
• About the Editors & Artists
• February 2010
• Sample Cover Letter

Let us know what happens!

Replacing the Window, Downtown Medford
Poem by Amy MacLennan
Art by Lochlann Jain
Broadsided February 1, 2010

Download the Broadsided file
to print & post
(400kb PDF file)

Collaborators' Q&A:

Bsided: Seen any good art lately??
Lochlann Jain: I recently spent a week in Udaipur, India, and spent a lot of time in artists' workshops...I spent time drawing with them and talking to them. Even though the art is for tourists, and mostly reproduces illustrations stroke-for-stroke, some of the work is very fine and beautiful.
Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Amy MacLennan: I think it was my perception of interconnectedness from the visual art that made me take a different stand in regards to my own poem.
— Read more from Lochlann and Amy

Meet The Collaborators:

Writer Amy MacLennan has been published or has work forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, River Styx, Pearl, Linebreak, Cimarron Review, New Plains Review, Folio, and Rattle. Her poems appear in the anthologies Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems from Ragged Sky Press and Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women from Haven Books.

Artist Lochlann Jain is a professional anthropologist.

12/1/09:
from Wreckage: By Sea (i)

poem by Jari Thymian
art by Kate Baird
(get it - 400kb pdf)

12/1/09:
from Wreckage: By Sea (i)

poem by Gretchen E. Henderson
art by Elizabeth Terhune
(get it - 396kb pdf)

11/1/09:
Interstate

poem by Brian Hendrickson
art by Kate Baird
(get it - 440kb pdf)

10/1/09:
Some Things I Know Without the Field Guide

poem by Suzanne Helfman
art by Gabe Travis
(get it - 480kb pdf)

9/1/09:
Yard Work

poem by Ryan J. Browne
art by Douglas Culhane
(get it - 392kb pdf)