2010 Artist & Writer Updates
We asked the Broadsided artists and writers to send us word of their recent accomplishments and adventures.
Each note is followed to a link to our archives, where you can find the original pdf Broadsided publication.
Dilruba Ahmed's debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust is forthcoming from Graywolf (July 2011). www.dilrubaahmed.com
-Broadsided Publication- "Roulade," with artist Eva Barash, August 2007
Leah Browning's second chapbook, Picking Cherries in the Espanola Valley, was released by Dancing Girl Press in 2010. Her first chapbook, Making Love to the Same Man for Fifteen Years, was published by Big Table Publishing in 2009. Other recent publications include short stories in Per Contra, Queen's Feminist Review, apt, Eclectic Flash, and The Northville Review, and poems in White Whale Review, The Driftwood Review, Blood Orange Review, and The Literary Bohemian.
-Broadsided Publication- "Under Construction," with artist Ira Joel Haber, June 2008
Christine Byl recently published a story in Crazyhorse and two shorts in the anthology Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska. Another essay will appear in the upcoming anthology Permanent Vacation: Life in National Parks. She's putting the finishing touches on her manuscript, Dirt Work: An Education on the Ground, and trying to remember how to write poems.
-Broadsided Publication- "Circus: Spotlight on the Ring," with artist Ira Joel Haber, March 2007
Keith Ekiss published his first book of poetry, Pima Road Notebook (see right), with New Issues Poetry & Prose in September.
-Broadsided Publication- "Extirpation," with artist Douglas Culhane, September 2010
Molly Fisk's second collection, The More Difficult Beauty (see right), came out in 2010. She recently read from it at TEDxSanFrancisco. Fisk is the Poet Laureate of KVMR-FM in Nevada City, CA.
-Broadsided Publication- "The Dry Tortugas," with artist Yuko Adachi, January 2009
Landon Godfrey: My first book, Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown, selected by David St. John for the Cider Press Review Book Award, comes out February 2011.
-Broadsided Publication- "Interview: Antique Iron Bed," with artist Jim Benning, August 2009
Benjamin Grossberg's collection, Sweet Core Orchard (see right), won this year's Lambda Literary Award for poetry.
-Broadsided Publication- "The Space Traveler on Wandering," with artist Jenny Bevill, July 2009
Gretchen E. Henderson's forthcoming collections include Galerie de Difformité (&NOW Books), The House Enters the Street (Starcherone Books), On Marvellous Things Heard (Green Lantern Press), and Wreckage: By Land & By Sea (dancing girl press), in which her Broadsided poem will reappear. She is an Affiliated Scholar in English and Art History at Kenyon College, where she continues collaboratively deforming: http://difformite.wordpress.com/.
-Broadsided Publication- "Wreckage: By Sea (i)," with artist Elizabeth Terhune, December 2009
Keetje Kuipers' book, Beautiful in the Mouth (see right), is now out from BOA Editions. New poems are published or forthcoming in Barrow Street, The Rumpus, Painted Bride Quarterly, Northwest Review, and Drunken Boat. Information about upcoming readings can be found at her website www.keetjekuipers.com
-Broadsided Publication- "The undeniable desire for physical contact among boys of a certain age," with artist Elizabeth Terhune, December 2006
Francesco Levato has two new collections: Elegy for Dead Languages (Marick Press, 2010) collects in print the long documentary poems "War Rug," part of which was originally published at Broadsided Press, "Elegy for Dead Languages;" and "Hood, Handgun, Power Drill." Creaturing (Marick Press, 2010) is a translation of the work of Tiziano Fratus.
-Broadsided Publication- "War Rug," with designer Elizabeth Bradfield, June 2009
Ellaraine Lockie's seventh chapbook, Stroking David's Leg, was named Best Individual Collection for 2010 by Purple Patch magazine in England, and her eighth chapbook, Red for the Funeral, won the 2010 San Gabriel Poetry Festival Chapbook Contest. First Place awards for single poems this year came from contests sponsored by: OASIS Journal, Winning Writers, Illinois State Poetry Society, California State Poetry Society, Alabama State Poetry Society and Redwood Writers. Ellaraine's poetry was featured in May on KSER PoetsWest radio show in the Seattle area. She has also accepted the position of Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, Lilipoh.
-Broadsided Publication- "The Whipping Woman," with artist TC Epperson, October 2006
Amy MacLennan has an article on social networking in Poet's Market 2011 and work forthcoming in Weave, The Smoking Poet, Whale Sound.
-Broadsided Publication- "Replacing the Window, Downtown Medford," with artist Lochlann Jain, February 2010
Pamela Johnson Parker's first chapbook, A Walk Through the Memory Palace (see right), won the 2009 qarrtsiluni chapbook contest, judged by Dinty Moore. A second chapbook, Other Four-Letter Words (see right), was published in 2010 by Finishing Line Press. Pamela's recent work has appeared in Oranges & Sardines, New Madrid, Holly Rose Review, and The Binnacle. A four-time Pushcart nominee and a finalist for the Bruckheimer award from Sarabande Press, she has a second broadside featured at Blue Fifth Review.
-Broadsided Publication- "Collective Origins (or) Ulysses as Uxoria," with artist Kevin Morrow, April 2009
Susan Rich's third book, The Alchemist's Kitchen (see right), is just out from White Pine Press. Her article "Entering the Picture" on writing poems based on the photography of Myra Albert Wiggins is in the new issue of Oregon Quarterly. New poems for early 2011 are coming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Pilgrimage, Poetry International, and The Women's Review of Books. More information on her blog http://thealchemistskitchen.blogspot.com
-Broadsided Publication- "Ghazal for the Woman from Vitez," with artist Undine Brod, August 2008
Dan Rosenberg's chapbook, A Thread of Hands, was published in 2010 by Tilt Press. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Subtropics; Pleiades; H_ngm_n; Forklift, Ohio; and elsewhere. He is a PhD student at UGA in Athens, Georgia.
-Broadsided Publication- "Dear Body," with artist Ira Joel Haber, March 2010
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet's book of poems, Tulips, Water, Ash (see right), was selected by Jean Valentine for the 2009 Morse Poetry Prize and published by University Press of New England. She has new work forthcoming in At Length (atlengthmag.com).
Broadsided publication coming in August, 2011.
Karen Weyant's first chapbook, Stealing Dust (see right), was published in 2009 by Finishing Line Press.
-Broadsided Publication- "Advice for Women on the Graveyard Shift," with artist Alesia F. Norling, May 2009
Joe Wilkins' first full-length collection Killing the Murnion Dogs: Poems (see right) is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press, and you can find his most recent work in the Southern Review, Harvard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, and Best American Magazine Writing 2010. A 2010 National Magazine Award finalist and 2010 PEN Center USA Award finalist, he was recently awarded the Richard J. Margolis Award of Blue Mountain Center, which goes to "a promising new journalist or essayist whose work combines warmth, humor, wisdom and concern with social justice."
-Broadsided Publication- "Meditation on the Treason of His Body," with artist Alesia F. Norling, May 2008
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