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

by broadstreetmag on Apr 19, 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...
Share This Poem: "Another Thing My Father Did," by Kip Zegers.
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Share This Poem: “Another Thing My Father Did,” by Kip Zegers.

by broadstreetmag on Apr 5, 2019 • No Comments
Celebrate National Poetry Month with this broadside from our latest issue, “Rivals & Players.” Or scroll down to read the poem in plain format.     Another Thing My Father Did Kip Zegers -1- In the father’s story, war whispered “you own nothing but these tin, neck-worn tags.” From Okinawa, he...
Share This Poem: "From Around Here," by Ron Smith. From "Rivals & Players."
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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....
"The Museum of Teeth," an essay on an incomplete collection. By Emily Woodworth.
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“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...
"Ghosts of the Walldogs": What fading advertisements tell us about ourselves. An essay by Michael Griffith.
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“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...
Share This Poem: "We Did It," by Yehuda Amichai, translated by Robert Alter. From Issue 1.1, "Dangerous Territory."
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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...
Our Summer 2018 issue, “Small Things, Partial Cures,” has hit the street and the web. Sample some of the contents here now.
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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...
From Our Pages: “Forget about Everything Else”—an interview with TyRuben Ellingson, cinematic art director and designer.
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From Our Pages: “Forget about Everything Else”—an interview with TyRuben Ellingson, cinematic art director and designer.

by broadstreetmag on Jun 16, 2018 • No Comments
“If a film is working, you’re forgetting about everything else….”   TyRuben Ellingson is responsible for your dreams. As a cinematic visual effects art director and conceptual designer, he creates the monsters and galaxies and eerily beautiful landscapes through which your imagination roams in the flickering light of a movie...
Our Interview with Jeanette Winterson: "It's Always Some Battle ..."
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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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Share This Poem: "Between Two Darknesses," by Jed Myers. From our "Rivals and Players" issue.
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Share This Poem: “Between Two Darknesses,” by Jed Myers. From our “Rivals and Players” issue.

by broadstreetmag on Apr 20, 2019 • No Comments
“Peace at just a little distance — wouldn’t that be nice?”   It’s still National Poetry Month, and BROAD STREET presents this broadside featuring a poem from our Winter/Spring 2019 issue, “Rivals & Players.” Drag the broadside to your desktop to blow up, print, and otherwise enjoy; or simply scroll down to read in plain text.   Between Two...
“Reenactors.” A photo essay by Chad Hunt.
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“Reenactors.” A photo essay by Chad Hunt.

by broadstreetmag on Apr 2, 2019 • No Comments
“The uniforms have changed, but we are still confronting the realities of war and what it means to place yourself within it.” Investigating the modern individual’s connection to warfare, a prominent photojournalist turns his camera on American reenactors of two watershed wars: the American Revolution and World War I. From our Winter/Spring 2019 issue, “Rivals & Players.”...
“Seek and Hide Again": an essay on the adult dating years. By Lise Haines.
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“Seek and Hide Again”: an essay on the adult dating years. By Lise Haines.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 27, 2019 • No Comments
“I telegraphed to the world that I was ready to meet someone …” A feature from our “Rivals & Players” issue, with photographs by the author. Parisian graffiti. Photo by the author. Seek and Hide Again By Lise Haines * A man told me on our first date, over roast chicken and Chardonnay, that he’d grown a beard so...
Share This Poem: "Chicken Train," by Terry Minchow-Proffitt.
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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,...
“A Curious Migration”: on human virtue and the precarious survival of the monarch butterfly. An essay by Mary Quade.
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“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....

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