2019 Haiku Year-in-Review

Posted on December 30, 2019 • Words by Elizabeth Bradfield, Miller Oberman, Sean Hill, Clayre Benzadon, & Salena Deane • Art by Elizabeth Bradfield

The HYIR: It’s a review, it’s a collaborative grab-bag, it’s a panoply of voices and visions… it’s the annual Haiku Year-In-Review (henceforth referred to as HYIR).

The purpose: to celebrate, examine, and honor the past year in poetry and art. The editors of Broadsided Press have come together to offer, in the spirit of the Carrier’s Address, a brief overview of 2019—it is eclectic, non-comprehensive, and heart-led—just as the work of Broadsided Press itself is.

 

Tagged: History / Historic Figure, HYIR, Traditional Forms

“Insurance Man, 1946”

Posted on September 1, 2006 • Words by Sean Hill • Art by Jim Benning

A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, poet Sean Hill earned an M.F.A. from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. His other awards include the Academy of American Poets Prize, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference working scholarships in 2000 and 2001, an Individual Artist grant from the Region 2 Art Council of Minnesota in 2004, and a 2005 Bush Artist Fellowship. Hill is a Cave Canem Fellow. …

Tagged: Class / Economics, Death, Digital Art, Traditional Forms