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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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• About Broadsided
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• Sample Cover Letter

Let us know what happens!

Omnivore
Writing by James Arthur
Art by Se Thut Quon
Broadsided February 1, 2012

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Collaborators' Q&A:

Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Poet James Arthur: I think that Se Thut Quon's image captures the directness and the aggression of "Omnivore," and for me, those qualities have always been dominant in the poem—but I also think that Se Thut Quon's work brings forward "Omnivore"'s sexual subtext. For me, that was eyeopening.
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Meet The Collaborators:

Writer James Arthur's first book, Charms Against Lightning, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. He will be in residence at the Amy Clampitt House in 2012.

Artist Se Thut Quon lives in Kentucky. This is his third Broadsided collaboration.

I have to say, this is the most hopeful and awesome thing I've seen in a while.

Read more and tell us what you think of Broadsided or about your Vectorizing adventures.

1/1/12:
The Haiku Year-in-Review

multiple contributors

12/1/11:
Tile Drainage

story by Christopher Lee Miles
art by Kara Searcy

11/1/11:
Red House, Indiana

story by Renee K Nelson
art by Cheryl Gross

10/1/11:
Searching for Poems on Grief

poem by Lisa Ortiz
art by Kevin Morrow

9/1/11:
Dear Johnny

poem by Angela Veronica Wong
art by Meghan Keane