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They’re here! Presenting “Rivals & Players,” our Winter 2019 issue.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 21, 2019 • No Comments

We’re online, live, and free to read on Medium! Our Winter 2019 issue features lovers, fighters, warriors, war reenactors, ad men, insects, and neighbors. Do we play the game, or does the game play us? What do we get when we spin Fortune’s wheel? Who’s watching, anyway — and when are...

Art / cultural studies / maps / poetry

Share This Poem: “From Around Here,” by Ron Smith. From “Rivals & Players.”

by broadstreetmag on Mar 17, 2019 • No Comments

“You plunge into the world. You roll the dice. You make new friends, a few, or maybe none…” To enjoy this piece from “Rivals & Players” as a broadside, drag the sheet to your desktop. Or scroll down to read in plain text. From Around Here The heat, damned heat — and now humidity....

advertising / creativity / cultural studies / Culture / essays / memoir / photography / pop culture / working

“Ghosts of the Walldogs”: What fading advertisements tell us about ourselves. An essay by Michael Griffith.

by broadstreetmag on Feb 27, 2019 • No Comments

” The public square could be a riotous free-for-all for those with businesses, events, or ideas to publicize …” A ghost to be identified below. Ghosts of the Walldogs What fading advertisements tell us about ourselves. From our Winter 2019 issue, “Rivals & Players.” By Michael Griffith * These days, when advertisers talk about...

childhood / family / illness / loss / love

From Our Pages: “Miniature,” by Leslie Stainton.

by broadstreetmag on Jan 31, 2019 • 1 Comment

“Hitty attributes her survival to her ‘smallness,’ which, she insists, appeals to the strangers who save her, one after another.” BROAD STREET presents a popular feature about love, loss, and the things we carry throughout our lives, from our 2018 “Small Things, Partial Cures” issue. This essay is also available,...

literature / poetry / sex

Share This Poem: “We Did It,” by Yehuda Amichai, translated by Robert Alter. From Issue 1.1, “Dangerous Territory.”

by broadstreetmag on Dec 25, 2018 • No Comments

“We did it like the wheel-shaped angels and the holy beasts and the divine chariot of the prophets …” To read and print this piece as a broadside, drag the image to your desktop. Or scroll down to read a little more about the poem and then find it in...

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Our Summer 2018 issue, “Small Things, Partial Cures,” has hit the street and the web. Sample some of the contents here now.

by broadstreetmag on Nov 24, 2018 • No Comments

Issue 3.1, “Small Things, Partial Cures,” hits hard … Our latest issue (super-sized) features great new work by Sherod Santos, Leslie Stainton, Walter Cummins, Sara Talpos, Peter Grandbois, Valley Haggard, Staci Mercado, Mark Wyatt, Diana Smith Bolton, Kathleen de Azevedo, Gunver Hasselbalch, James Prochnik, and many more writers and...

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Our Interview with Jeanette Winterson: “It’s Always Some Battle …”

by broadstreetmag on Jan 21, 2018 • No Comments

“I didn’t intend to write a memoir. I was on a personal search for my biological mother, which I hadn’t intended to do either. You know what it’s like, the big things in life you never plan: you micromanage everything, and then the big things come along, and you never...

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loss / love / poetry

Share This Poem: “Chicken Train,” by Terry Minchow-Proffitt.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 23, 2019 • No Comments

“This face reflected back is not me…” We’ve formatted this poem from our “Rivals & Players” issue as a broadside that you can drag to your desktop. Or simply scroll down and read in plain text. * Chicken Train Chicken train running all day … Chicken train take your chickens away —Ozark Mountain Daredevils Helena,...

essays / memoir / reportage

“A Curious Migration”: on human virtue and the precarious survival of the monarch butterfly. An essay by Mary Quade.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 21, 2019 • No Comments

“A monarch butterfly is a small being, less than the size and weight of a Post-it note. The monarch butterfly phenomenon, however, is enormously heavy….” Monarch butterflies cluster on oyamel Cerro Pelon, Mexico. Photo by the author. This feature is also available, in slightly different format, on Medium. From “Rivals & Players,” Broad Street‘s Winter 2019 issue....

childhood / essays / family / memoir

“The Museum of Teeth,” an essay on an incomplete collection. By Emily Woodworth.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 15, 2019 • No Comments

“Over the years I have discovered that they are sneaky, nomadic little creeps.” Tooth worms causing pain in the 1700s. Ivory carving. From “Rivals & Players,” our Winter 2019 issue. The Museum of Teeth By Emily Woodworth In the drawer beside her sock drawer, my mom keeps a small plastic bag full of baby teeth. Actually, make that...

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Issue 3.2, “Rivals & Players,” is LIVE: Sample the Contents here now.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 2, 2019 • No Comments

Issue 3.2, “Rivals & Players,” is live: Sample the Contents here. Presenting words and images from our Winter 2019 issue--all online and completely free to read. Do we play the game, or does the game play us? What do we see when we spin Fortune’s wheel? Who’s watching, anyway? And when are they coming for us? In...

poetry

Share This Poem: “Idyll,” by Jed Myers.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 1, 2019 • No Comments

“The jay looks out for others’ hungers — glints in the groundcover, flits in the canopy …” BROAD STREET presents a poem from our Winter 2019 “Rivals & Players” issue. To enjoy it as a broadside, drag to your desktop, where you can enlarge it and print it. Or simply scroll down to read in plain text. Idyll A...

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