Broadsides poetry broadsided press art literature grassroots vectors
|
• What did the writer and artist think about their Broadsided experience? Collaborator's Q & A.
• Leah Browning & Ira Joel Haber
|
Every day, we walk past billboards for shops and car dealers, for churches and insurance, but our streets, our daily lives among each other, are missing something. They're missing thought. Dialogue. Opinion. Ideas.
Let's put words out there for people to snort at, sigh over, argue with, and read. Let's put up broadsides.
On the first of every month, a new Broadsided collaboration will be posted here for you to download, mull, and post.
HISTORY
Loosely defined as single sheets of paper printed on one side, broadsides were the most diverse form of brief, single-occasion publishing before the Civil War. Although broadsides were first introduced in England, they became a prime means of communication in the United States.
Announcements, advertisements, song lyrics, commentaries, cartoons, and poems were printed and posted in towns across the nation. Later, Harlem Renaissance, Concrete, and Beat writers claimed the broadside as a below-the-radar way to get their words out onto the streets.
We want to continue the tradition.
• VECTORS: Colorado and Vermont have been Vectorized! Broadside your town.
• STICKERS: We've got 'em. Want one? Let us know.
• 4/1/08: "Among Trees (or) The Heart is a Bee Hive:" Cindy St. John & Elizabeth Terhune (256kb PDF)
• 3/1/08: "Mayflies:" Roy Seeger & Helen Beckman Kaplan (384kb PDF)
• 2/1/08: "The Prosthetic:" Joy Icayan & Elizabeth Terhune (244kb PDF)
• 1/1/08: "Canned Food Drive:" Kathleen Lynch & Jim Benning (376kb PDF)
• 12/1/07: "Visitation:" Noel Sloboda & Kate Baird (512kb PDF)
• 11/1/07: "Bird's Eye:" Amanda Warren & Kate Baird (452kb PDF)
More in the archives
www.broadsidedpress.org broadsided@gmail.com
Site by Pelagic Design
Broadsides poetry broadsided press art literature grassroots