Share This Poem: “Package,” by Marylen Grigas
“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. Package Sad-sad wrapped in anxious-anxious, wrapped in...
From Our Pages: “My Little Pony,” a memoir by Tama Janowitz.
“I didn’t know what that good life was going to be but I figured it would probably not include a kitchen where the food had expiration dates from three years earlier and when you opened the box moths flew out. . . .” Go ahead if you want to–start reading the complete text of...
Illustrating the Poem that Records the Dream: An Interview with Collaborators Judith Serin and Masami Inoue
“Dreams seem to like it when you pay attention to them, and they get more and more vivid …” At Broad Street, we’re all about telling true stories in multiple forms. We have big dreams. So do poet Judith Serin and artist Masami Inoue. For some time now, Judith has been working on a series of prose...
Truth Teller Spotlight – Susann Cokal
Aside from her role as the Editorial Director of Broad Street Magazine, Susann Cokal also wears hats as historical novelist, pop-culture essayist, book critic, and professor of creative writing and modern literature at Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to her three published novels, Cokal has published fiction and nonfiction in Electric Literature, Gargoyle, The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Hayden’s...
Truth Teller Spotlight – Shalom Auslander
Author and producer Shalom Auslander uses humor to recount stories of shame, sex and God as a young boy growing up in an Orthodox Jewish community. His books, “Beware of God,” “Foreskin’s Lament” and “Hope: A Tragedy” draw on his Jewish upbringing and early questions about faith. Auslander has published articles in The New York Times Magazine,...
