Collaborators’ Q&A What inspired you to bring your work to Broadsided? Poet Pepper Trail: My career in natural science trained me to be an observer, and my poems often grow from images–or sometimes are direct responses to photographs of mine. So I love the combination of word and image that is the heart of Broadsided. What drew you to create a visual response to this poem, in particular? Artist Millian Pham Lien Giang: The poem …
Editor’s Note: On Electricity and the Contrapuntal Poem Waves, currents, the movement of time and actions. 2015 was charged with many moments that felt big. Here, those currents surge up into poems, assert their energy, spark memory. Looking at the submissions for this year’s haiku, the conversation among the stories and issues—from natural disasters to climate change talks to the refugee crisis to Black Lives Matter and broader questions of social justice and responsibility—began to …
The annual Haiku Year-In-Review (HYIR) celebrates, examines, and honors the past year in poetry and art.
Meet the Poets: A group that spans the continent, a group that loves poetry and works as teachers, naturalists, and advocates. We asked them to tell us about themselves, and to also look back on 2014 and share their most memorable moment, be it personal or public.