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...
Share This Poem: “Home Security,” by Marylen Grigas
We are proud to inaugurate a new series of poems by Marylen Grigas, 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 on the title or artwork below to see the poem in a printer-friendly, larger-font version, or scroll down past the bylines...
Share This Poem: “Pretty Moon” By Lisa Dordal
Pretty moon, everyone said. Before the noise, before the fire. Two cars and the cornfields idle… From time to time, we re-present work that has been first been published elsewhere. This heartrending poem about nature’s imperviousness to human sorrow is worth more than one reading, and we are pleased to feature it as a Web extra…....
Presenting the Dream Geography Series
Broad Street presents a collaboration between poet Judith Serin and visual artist Masami Inoue. Dreams lie somewhere on a map, and these two are seeking the legend to read it.
Celebrating (again): Contributor Paisley Rekdal wins the 2013 Rilke Prize. Here’s a little more about her.
Updated in June 2018: Poet and essayist Paisley Rekdal, who contributed to our “Dangerous Territory” issue, adds yet another honor to a list the now includes an astounding collection of honors and awards, including (now) the über-important Rilke Award and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, an Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship, Pushcart...
