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ABOUT BROADSIDED PRESS KIT Monthly updates and info about Broadsided for the press. 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 (pdf) • About the Editors & Artists (pdf) • Sample Cover Letter (doc) Before paperbacks and pocket books, before blogs, there were broadsides. Every day, we walk past billboards for shops and car dealers, for churches and insurance, but our streets, our daily lives among each other, are missing something. They're missing thought. Dialogue. Opinion. Ideas. Let's put words out there for people to snort at, sigh over, argue with, and read. Let's put up broadsides. THE PLAN On the first of every month, a new Broadsided literary/visual collaboration will be posted here for you to download. What's more, Vectors (this could be you!) will post them in cafes, hallways, and elsewhere. See where Vectors are posting and add your town. Writing is chosen through submissions sent to Broadsided. Artists allied with Broadsided are emailed the selected writing. They then "dibs" what resonates for them and respond visually. The resulting letter-sized pdf is designed to be downloaded and printed by anyone with a computer and printer. Our goal is to create something both gorgeous and cheap. We want to put words and art on the streets. HISTORY Loosely defined as single sheets of paper printed on one side, broadsides were the most diverse form of brief, single-occasion publishing before the Civil War. Although broadsides were first introduced in England, they became a prime means of communication in the United States. Announcements, advertisements, song lyrics, commentaries, cartoons, and poems were printed and posted in towns across the nation. Later, Harlem Renaissance, Concrete, and Beat writers claimed the broadside as a below-the-radar way to get their words out onto the streets. We want to continue the tradition.   Broadsided is a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses

ABOUT THE EDITORS Elizabeth Bradfield, Founder and Editor: Author of Approaching Ice (Persea, 2010) and Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2008), Liz is a poet whose work has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, Orion, The Best New Poets 2006 and elsewhere (www.ebradfield.com). Liz, who lives on Cape Cod, earns a living as a web designer and naturalist. Why Broadsided? Well, the idea of literary/visual collaboration has always fired her up. Also, it was pretty hard to put your hands on a literary journal in Anchorage, where she was living when she dreamed up the project. She wants poems out in the world, escaping their perfect-bound covers. Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Official Broadsided Twitterer & Virtual Vector at Large, is the author of Apocalyptic Swing. She lives in Los Angeles, in reality and virtually. She likes cream in her coffee. Hates to be alone on Sundays. Keeps Shabbat and will cook you the best Greek Easter feast you've ever had. If there is a heaven, she hopes there's at least one woman who can sing Leonard Cohen songs. She thinks and tweets about these things @gabbat. And here @broadsidedpress. Sean Hill, Editor, is the author of Blood Ties & Brown Liquor (UGA Press, 2008). His various fellowships and grants include fellowships from Cave Canem, The MacDowell Colony, and, most recently, a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Tin House, and numerous other journals, and in several anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. He currently lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. More information, as well as poems, can be found at his website: www.seanhill.org. Alexandra Teague, Editor, is the author of Mortal Geography (Persea, 2010), and her work has appeared in anthologies and journals including Best American Poetry 2009, The Yale Anthology of Younger American Poetry, New England Review, and The Missouri Review. She lives in Oakland and teaches composition and poetry at City College of San Francisco and elsewhere. She is spending Fall 2010 as a Visiting Professor of Poetry at The University of Arkansas, near her former hometown in the Ozark Mountains. More information, and poems, can be found at www.alexandrateague.com Mark Temelko, Consulting Editor, is a poet living in central New York (the rural/rust belt part). He works as a staffwriter at Wells College, where he also teaches poetry as a part-time adjunct. He's currently working on his first manuscript of poems. Current infatuations: the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Eliot Coleman's four-season harvest. Broadsided News/Interviews April, 2010 Poets & Writers article on Broadsided: "Open Air Publishing" Poet's Market 2010: Broadsided is mentioned in an article on nontraditional presses and editor Elizabeth Bradfield is interviewed in an article on West Coast publishers. (get it on Amazon.com) June 2008 Prick of the Spindle article/interview by Jennifer Garfield July 2007 Salka; for an English translation, visit this page. July 2006 Poets and Writers Alaska Professional Communicators

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