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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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Coronavirus / COVID-19 / essays / memoir

“Everything’s Fine,” an essay by Bea Chang.

by broadstreetmag on Jul 1, 2020 • Comments Closed

31 paragraphs about quarantine and sports. “I figured that by the time I was ‘done,’ some semblance of normalcy would have resumed.” 1. Most of my friends were (are) athletes. After our college careers, they started to do long-distance running, signing up for 10K races and marathons. I did not. I coached basketball; I tended to...

Coronavirus / COVID-19 / essays / love / memoir

“Waiting,” from the COVID journals of Patricia Smith.

by broadstreetmag on Jun 25, 2020 • Comments Closed

On waiting — and moving forward — in a pandemic. “Experience tells me the world is not always a safe place, and yet — “ I know there should be a holiness in waiting. In learning to be still, to learn the lesson that we are not in control. This is, after all, what advent is all about. We wait and...

creativity / current events / poetry / violence

“[sanctuary],” a poem by Frederick Ramey.

by broadstreetmag on Jun 24, 2020 • Comments Closed

On the church shootings in Texas, in a world where “normal” has been left behind. “It all seems so natural now we’ve gone straight through eloquence …” [sanctuary] There my hand was / veined purple / the skin like sand under clear water / spotted some / grey haired and twice ringed like my father’s / once...

Culture / current events / History / politics / race

“Love Will Win”: The removal of Jefferson Davis’s statue from Richmond, Virginia.

by broadstreetmag on Jun 10, 2020 • Comments Closed

Broad Street was founded and is still at home in Richmond, Virginia. The former capital of the Confederacy has been a hotbed of discussion about–and protests over–symbols such as the Confederate statues that march down the town’s grand Monument Avenue. We stand with Black Lives Matter and the peaceful protests at the monuments, which are creating...

COVID-19 / creativity / essays / memoir / quarantine / quarantine / spirituality

“I don’t know what to do about it,” an essay by Laura Bernstein-Machlay.

by broadstreetmag on May 21, 2020 • Comments Closed

On passing time in Detroit. “I’m so sorry, I whisper to the silence all around.” Monet, The artist’s garden at Giverny, 1900. This feature is available, in slightly different format, on Medium, here. Where I live, COVID-19 has landed like a tornado. It staggers and sways through Detroit and beyond, so everyone deemed nonessential stays under cover when...

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