Click above to see the poem in a printer-friendly, larger-font version, or scroll down past the bylines for plain text. Marylen Grigas is the author of the poetry collection Shift, out this fall from Nature’s Face publishers. Her poems have recently been published in The New Yorker, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Circulo de Poesia. She lives in Vermont and works at an architectural...
One of our favorite writers, Suzanne Joinson, has virtually no family albums to look at, so she likes to look at strangers’. Here, writing for The Guardian, she contemplates memory and the role photography plays in constructing our families … Look for her second novel, The Photographer’s Wife, in stores now. No family photos by Suzanne...
A few words on the series BROAD STREET is publishing in fall 2016 … Some of the poems in this series refer to my experiences since being diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago. Even though the time since has been far from easy, there have been many joyful and humorous moments. “Home Security” and...
International sculptor Daniel M. Krause, interviewed in the “Hunt, Gather” issue of Broad Street, is known for many things–studying, deconstructing, and riffing on the famous Chinese warrior sculptures; major corporate commissions and gallery exhibitions; carrying the Olympic torch en route to Beijing; and a series of impressive sculptures for the Scientology flagship center in Clearwater, Florida. His...
“Sad-sad wrapped in anxious-anxious, wrapped in a slew of questions …” Share the next installment in Marylen Grigas’s new poetry series, illustrated by Riley McAlpine-Barthold. These elegant poems map the boundaries of home, body, illness, and love, boundaries also eloquently evoked in the line drawings. Click above to see the poem in a printer-friendly, larger-font...
