Illustrating the Poem that Records the Dream: An Interview with Collaborators Judith Serin and Masami Inoue
“Dreams seem to like it when you pay attention to them, and they get more and more vivid …” At Broad Street, we’re all about telling true stories in multiple forms. We have big dreams. So do poet Judith Serin and artist Masami Inoue. For some time now, Judith has been working on a series of prose...
Dream Path
“I see again the generosity of dream geography, giving me places from many periods of my life at once …” The final (for now) installment of the collaboration between poet Judith Serin and artist Masami Inoue. The series will resume in January. I keep thinking of a path I dreamt years ago, wondering why...
Summer 2016: “Maps & Legends”
OVERTURE: Every map represents both truth and imagination. No matter how carefully a medieval ship’s captain described a shoreline or how sophisticated a modern engineer’s tools, there is always space left for interpretation: “Here there be dragons”; “Somewhere beyond this line lies the kingdom of Prester John.” These are the mapmakers’ truths, but no one...
Dream Architecture: Outside/In
Dream Architecture: Outside/In Part 4 of the Dream Geographies collaboration between poet Judith Serin and visual artist Masami Inoue. Herbert and I are in a large room, sleeping in separate beds. A weed with prickly leaves and purple yarrow-like flowers grows next to the foot of mine. I’m afraid the prickles...
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…....
