Broad Street

Adieu, and Be Well … Broad Street is now closed.

by broadstreetmag on May 24, 2021 • Comments Closed

One last time, and forever, we thank all of our contributors, our readers, our boards, and our editorial staff over the last almost-decade. We had a great run and published so much of which we are deeply proud. We started laying plans in 2011 with a dream and a shoestring...

“You Want Me to Be Happy About Dying” — an essay by Ramona Grigg.

by broadstreetmag on Nov 5, 2020 • Comments Closed

Reflections on life, afterlife, and the reality of the dark, dark passage. “Nothing in my life will be erased after I die.” Photo by the author. To most of you out there, I’m old. I’m so old, odds are I’ll probably die soon. You can think on that for a few seconds and move...

Art / Coronavirus / COVID-19 / creativity / illness / politics

“The Politics of Art, 2020”: Our interview with Alexandra Blum, mixed-media artist.

by broadstreetmag on Sep 6, 2020 • Comments Closed

A pandemic and other global breakdowns inspire a visual journal of diverse styles and influences. “I think for me what is interesting about this series of work is the diversity of voices within myself.” “Vitriol.” Editors’ Note: Alexandra (Ali) Blum is a California-based artist who draws on influences from around the...

Culture / current events / History / photography / race

Taking Down the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia: On Civil War monuments, graffiti art, and protest. Photos by John Moser.

by broadstreetmag on Jun 11, 2020 • Comments Closed

The BLM movement is writ large on the Civil War monuments of the Confederacy’s former capital. And now some controversial statues are being removed. “We Just Want Justice,” protesters and graffiti at the base of the Robert E. Lee statue. Broad Street’s home is in Richmond, Virginia, where Jefferson Davis once presided...

Coronavirus / COVID-19 / memoir / quarantine

From the COVID Journals of Lise Haines.

by broadstreetmag on Apr 12, 2020 • 1 Comment

On learning that she should sacrifice herself for the good of the public. pikrepo.com On the television this morning, an idea was floated with great sincerity. I could sacrifice myself for the public good. If anyone had to get sick or starve or die from a lack of oxygen, I was...

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family / History / poetry

Share This Poem: “Another Thing My Father Did,” by Kip Zegers.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 5, 2019 • Comments Closed

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...

advertising / cultural studies / essays / loss / love / memoir / photography / poetry / reportage / women / working

Issue 3.2, “Rivals & Players,” is LIVE: Sample the Contents here now.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 2, 2019 • Comments Closed

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...

poetry

Share This Poem: “Idyll,” by Jed Myers.

by broadstreetmag on Mar 1, 2019 • Comments Closed

“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...

advertising / creativity / cultural studies / Culture / essays / memoir / photography / pop culture / working

“Ghosts of the Walldogs”: What fading advertisements tell us about ourselves. An essay by Michael Griffith.

by broadstreetmag on Feb 27, 2019 • Comments Closed

” 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 competing for eyeballs in “the...

creativity / essays / History / language / poetry / religion

From Our Pages: “To Fill a Room with ‘Nobody’” — Sara Talpos puts Emily Dickinson and mitochondria under the microscope.

by broadstreetmag on Feb 18, 2019 • Comments Closed

“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...

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