Share This Poem: “Chicken Train,” by Terry Minchow-Proffitt.
“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,...
Share This Poem: “Another Thing My Father Did,” by Kip Zegers.
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 placed his lost address like...
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Issue 3.2, “Rivals & Players,” is LIVE: Sample the Contents here now.
Issue 3.2, “Rivals & Players,” is live: Sample the Contents here. Presenting words and images from our Winter 2019 issue--all online and completely free to read. Do we play the game, or does the game play us? What do we see when we spin Fortune’s wheel? Who’s watching, anyway? And when are they coming for us? In...
Share This Poem: “Idyll,” by Jed Myers.
“The jay looks out for others’ hungers — glints in the groundcover, flits in the canopy …” BROAD STREET presents a poem from our Winter 2019 “Rivals & Players” issue. To enjoy it as a broadside, drag to your desktop, where you can enlarge it and print it. Or simply scroll down to read in plain text. Idyll A...
From Our Pages: “To Fill a Room with ‘Nobody’” — Sara Talpos puts Emily Dickinson and mitochondria under the microscope.
“To Fill a Room with ‘Nobody’” Emily Dickinson and mitochondria go under the microscope in this Pushcart-nominated essay from our “Small Things, Partial Cures” issue of 2018. “Mitochondria, the tiny products of endosymbiosis, made it possible for Emily Dickinson to write over 1,700 poems and for Charles Darwin to climb 4,000 feet into the Andean...
