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Think of it as web-enhanced grassroots guerilla art.
On the first of every month, a new collaboration is posted for you to download. Free.
We hope you'll print it and post it in your local haunts— coffee shops, libraries, office doors, telephone poles, etc. That will make you a Vector.
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"Matthew" & "Mixed Media"
Poems by Catherine R. Cryan and Laura Lee Washburn
Art by Kara Searcy and Gabriel Travis
Broadsided May 1, 2013
Collaborators' Q&A for "Mixed Media":
Bsided: This poem was chosen in response to Gabriel Travis's art—can you talk about the experience of finding words that were in conversation with the image?
Poet Laura Lee Washburn: I liked the things in the picture that didn't make sense to me. I felt like I wanted to see a bigger and bigger version to figure out what I was seeing. Is that an ice cube? A trash-compacted white tiger, wolf, machine, element, dream? Should I take my glasses off or put them back on?
— Read more from Laura & Gabe.
Collaborators' Q&A for "Matthew":
Bsided: This poem was chosen in response to Kara Searcy's art—can you talk about the experience of finding words that were in conversation with the image?
Poet Catherine R. Cryan: I tend to look for connections to the natural world, and Kara's art was finely devoid of natural things. The figures in the image have this dreamlike, wistful quality, and left me wondering what their lives—their conflicts and dreams—had been like before.
— Read more from Catherine & Kara.
Meet The Collaborators:
Poet Laura Lee Washburn is the Director of Creative Writing at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, an editorial board member of the Woodley Memorial Press, and the author of This Good Warm Place: 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition (March Street) and Watching the Contortionists (Palanquin Chapbook Prize). Her poetry has appeared in such journals as Carolina Quarterly, November 3rd Club, The Sun, The Journal, and Valparaiso Review. Born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, she has also lived and worked in Arizona and in Missouri. She is married to the writer Roland Sodowsky.
Artist Gabe Travis is an artist who makes a living designing and building hiking trails throughout Alaska. He has been making art on commission for about eight years and producing fine art notecards featuring these works (available at www.gabetravis.com).
Poet Catherine R. Cryan is a writer, farmer, and champion frog-catcher. She currently works as a greenhouse manager and college sports statistician in Rhode Island. After growing up on Long Island, she earned degrees in biology and education from Fordham University, where she received the John J. and Bernice Kilduff White Prize for Creative Writing. Her work has most recently appeared in The Rhode Island Writers' Circle Anthology. As a child she spent more time outdoors than in, and tries diligently to replicate this as an adult.
Artist Kara Searcy is a multi-media artist from Iowa. When she isn't wandering the grassy prairie with her daughter she can probably be found eating an apple or teaching the dog to play dead when she yells "Bang!" Examples of her work can be found at http://fallstraightback.deviantart.com/. She loves constellations, Jesus, and the word "ricochet."
It always goes in the pockets of Amtrak seats when I travel to NYC, my library bulletin board, the Post Office... I like the fact that it is simple, I don't have to go somewhere to fetch it and I don't have to belong to a (virtual) social network to participate.
Read more and tell us what you think of Broadsided or about your Vectorizing adventures.
This Vector was willing to scale a (fake) cliff for Broadsided... that's the spirit! Get details.
4/1/13
"Wu Wei"
Poem by Dawn McGuire
Art by Gabriel Travis
3/1/13
"Landing Under Water I See Roots"
Poem by Annie Finch
Art by Stacy Isenbarger
3/1/13
"Landing Under Water I See Roots"
Poem by Annie Finch
Art by Jennifer Moses
"Dear Corporation, Early Years to Present"
Poem by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn
Art by Kara Searcy
1/1/13
"2012 Haiku Year-in-Review"
haiku by Matthew Caretti, Sarah Martinez-Helfman, Renee Lacroix, Cynthia Gallaher
art by Lochlann Jain, Cheryl Gross, Sarah Van Sanden
12/1/12:
Majestic Prayers of Bangor
writing by Sean Prentiss
art by Kate Baird
11/1/12:
April and Silence
writing by Tomas Tranströmer
art by Douglas Culhane
translation by Michael McGriff
Writing & Art By...
• Ladan Osman & Meghan Keane
• Camille Dungy & Caleb Brown
• Elizabeth Langemak
• Rachel Patterson
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