Share This Poem: “Litany of Missing Earrings,” by Amy Sailer.
Pushcart-nominated and just right to address post-holiday melancholia … “each one a little note of longing, a little signification, incomplete & therefore impermanent …” Presenting an outstanding poem from our summer 2018 “Small Things, Partial Cures” issue. You can enjoy Amy’s litany as a broadside by dragging it to your desktop, or simply scroll down to read it...
“Familial Bodies,” on a brother’s suicide and a father’s scorn. Memoir by A. W. Barnes.
A father’s harsh words about a gay son’s suicide echo down the decades. A Broad Street online exclusive. “Anyone who lives this way deserves to die this way,” he said, looking directly at me … One day in October 1993, I met my parents at the Medical Examiner’s office on 30th Street and First Avenue...
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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.
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 visual artists who share their...
Share This Poem: “Accident,” by Christine Gelineau.
“I too have confused what was just beginning with what had already reached its end…” BROAD STREET presents a poem by the indomitable Christine Gelineau, specially formatted as a broadside you can download and print. Christine’s full-length collections of poetry are Crave, Appetite for the Divine, and Remorseless Loyalty. “Accident” originally appeared in our “Hunt, Gather” issue. ********************************************************************************************************* *********************************************************************************************************...
Share This Poem: “Death Dance to the Stars (A Dream),” by Stuart Gunter.
“I am not meant to be here and I am dying on the way to my own funeral …” February weather may play tricks on us, and so (surprise!) can death. Your gift for the post-Valentine winding-down of our shortest month: this broadside featuring a remarkable poem by Stuart Gunter. Download to print the dance...
