BROADSIDED ARCHIVES: 2005 & 2006

December 1, 2006
"The undeniable desire for physical contact among boys of a certain age"
Artist: Ira Joel Haber (bio).
Poet: Keetje Kuipers.
Keetje Kuipers has received fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency which will provide her with a year of solitude in Oregon's Rogue River Valley. She will use her time there to complete work on her manuscript, Beautiful in the Mouth, which contains poems currently published or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Parthenon West Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others. This poem previously appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of Faultline.
Image: "Self Portrait;" 1968-2006; drawing; 10½" x 13½"

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November 15, 2006
"joe"
Artist: Anya Ermak-Bower (bio).
Poet: Michael Spielman.
Poet Michael Spielman lives and writes in Tucson, Arizona.
Image: Pen and ink on paper; 11½" x 8"

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November 1, 2006
"Mahogany"
Artist: Elizabeth Terhune (bio).
Poet: Leslie LaChance.
Leslie LaChance lives in West Tennessee, where she spends time admiring how the sky comes down like that over the cotton fields. Her poems and articles have appeared recently in The Birmingham Poetry Review, Iris, Chronogram, Now & Then, Appalachian Journal, and Dance Teacher.
Image: "Mahogany Bed;" 2006; Bister ink and watercolor on paper

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October 15, 2006
"The Whipping Woman"
Artist: TC Epperson (bio).
Poet: Ellaraine Lockie.
Ellaraine Lockie writes poetry, nonfiction books, magazine articles/columns and children's stories. She is a well-published and awarded poet who has received nine nominations for Pushcart Prizes in poetry and has four published chapbooks: Midlife Muse (Poetry Forum), Crossing the Center Line (Sweet Annie Press), Coloring Outside the Lines (The Plowman Press), Finishing Lines (Snark Publishing). Ellaraine also teaches a poetry/writing workshop on the creative process for schools, writing groups and libraries. "The Whipping Woman" appears in the chapbook Finishing Lines from Snark Publishing. It has also appeared in the following journals: Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Pegasus, The Raintown Review, The Hyper Texts and HeartLodge Poetry Journal.
Image: "Employment;" pencil, contß pencil & black marker; 11½" x 8"

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October 1, 2006
"Forgiveness"
Artist: Kate Baird (bio).
Poet: Richard Hoffman.
Richard Hoffman's work, both prose and verse, has appeared in Agni, Ascent, Harvard Review, Hudson Review, The Literary Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, Witness and elsewhere, as well as in several anthologies. He is the author of the poetry collection Without Paradise (Cedar Hill Books.) Currently Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, he also teaches in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. He is the recipient of several fellowships and awards, most recently a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in fiction, and The Literary Review's Charles Angoff Prize.
Image: Colored pencil on paper, 8½" x 11"

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September 15, 2006
"In the Library of the Fairy Tale"
Artist: Douglas Culhane (bio).
Poet: Brian Teare.
Brian Teare is the author of The Room Where I Was Born & the chapbooks Pilgrim & Transcendental Grammar Crown. He lives & teaches in Oakland, CA.
Image: Water color, 11½" x 8"

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September 1, 2006
"Insurance Man 1946"
Artist: Jim Benning (bio).
Poet: Sean Hill.
A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill earned an M.F.A. from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. His other awards include the Academy of American Poets Prize, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference working scholarships in 2000 and 2001, an Individual Artist grant from the Region 2 Art Council of Minnesota in 2004, and a 2005 Bush Artist Fellowship. Hill is a Cave Canem Fellow. His poems have appeared in literary journals including Callaloo, Ploughshares, Indiana Review, lyric poetry review, and Pleiades, and in the anthologies Blues Poems and Gathering Ground. His poems have been nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize and selected as a "Discovery"/The Nation Prize semi-finalist in 2005 and 2006. Recently his manuscript Blood Ties & Brown Liquor has been selected as a semi-finalist or finalist for several national publication prizes including The Walt Whitman Award. He lives in Bemidji, Minnesota.
Image: Digital photo-illustration

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August 1, 2006
"Mouth"
Artist: Caleb Brown (bio).
Poet: Robert Wrigley.
Robert Wrigley is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poems (Penguin, 2006). Wrigley's awards and honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Idaho State Commission on the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the Director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Idaho. "Mouth" was first published in Poetry.
Image: Acrylic and photocopied carpenter's pencil on paper, 7" x 6½"

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July 1, 2006
"Edison in Love"
Artist: Douglas Culhane (bio).
Poet: Robin Ekiss.
Robin Ekiss is a former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. Her work appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New England Review, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco. "Edison in Love" first appeared in Poetry, October 2005.
Image: Ink on paper, 8½" x 11"

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June 1, 2006
"Mathematician Watching the Moths at an All-Night Gas Station"
Artist: Kate Baird (bio).
Poet: Paul McCormick.
Paul McCormick worked for many years as a clammer on the Great South Bay. He now writes literary passages for standardized tests. His recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Verse, Fence, Barrow Street, Conduit, Conjunctions and other journals. He lives in Huntington, NY.
Image: Ink on paper, 8½" x 11"

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May 15, 2006
"And Day Brought Back My Night"
Artist: Lisa Sette (bio).
Poet: Geoffrey Brock.
Geoffrey Brock is the author of Weighing Light. His poems and translations have also appeared in The New Yorker, Southern Review, Paris Review, and elsewhere. He has received a Stegner Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. "And Day Brought Back My Night" originally appeared in Poetry Magazine.
Image: Digital photograph

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May 1, 2006
"Sketch of an Astronaut"
Artist: Anya Ermak-Bower (bio).
Poet: Donald Illich.
Donald Illich's poetry has been published in Fourteen Hills, The Iowa Review, and New Zoo Poetry Review. His work will be published in future issues of the Roanoke Review, Passages North, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Pinyon, Hubbub, Cold Mountain Review, Naked Knuckle, Cross Connect Magazine, and The Sulphur River Literary Review. "Sketch of an Astronaut" originally appeared in The Iowa Review.
Image: Mixed media collage, 8½" x 11"

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April 15, 2006
"Paying the Bills"
Artist: Amy Meissner (bio).
Poet: Amy Groshek.
Amy Groshek was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in 1977. According to the Eau Claire Law, written in 1937, the price paid to a United States farmer for milk increases with the farm's distance from Eau Claire. Amy holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Anchorage. She teaches writing and computer applications at Alaska Pacific University. Her poems have appeared in Bloom, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Ice-Floe. The Eau Claire Law, due to the lobbying efforts of New England and California corporate dairies, is still in effect.
Image: "Industry," watercolor and graphite, 8½" x 11"

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April 1, 2006
"A Coat"
Artist: Undine Brod (bio).
Poet: William Butler Yeats.
Image: Paper collage, 8½" x 11"

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March 15, 2006
"The Ladies' Man"
Artist: Anne Bradfield (bio).
Poet: Don Winter.
Don Winter: I went from being owner of Southeast Real Estate to poverty after a 1998 divorce and have since taken up the poem, to try to keep my head on straight. I have had work in around 400 journals, including New York Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Pearl, Slipstream, Hiram Poetry Review, and Nerve Cowboy. I have published a chapbook of my poems, Things About to Disappear (Bone World Publishing), and a collaboration with another poet, Robert L. Penick, entitled Beware the Madmen (Another Mule Press). My new collection, On the Line, appears in late April (Bone World Publishing). These collections are distributed by New York Quarterly. My poems have been nominated for 9 Pushcarts, and I co-edit Fight These Bastards magazine.
Image: Excerpt from "11:00, November," serigraph, 22" x 29"

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March 1, 2006
"Epithalamion"
Artist: Kate Baird (bio).
Poet: G.C. Waldrep.
G.C. Waldrep's books of poems are Goldbeater's Skin (Center for Literary Publishing, 2003) and Disclamor (forthcoming from BOA Editions, 2007). "Epithalamion" originally appeared in the Black Warrior Review.
Image: Ink and graphite on paper, 4" x 6"

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February 15, 2006
"Goldfish Are Ordinary"
Artist: Andrew Harbison (bio).
Poet: Stacie Cassarino.
Stacie Cassarino won the 2005 Discovery/The Nation prize. She teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and Middlebury College in Vermont.
Image: Watercolor, 8½" x 11"

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February 1, 2006
"The Gift"
Artist: Amy Meissner (bio).
Poet: Lynn Stanley.
Lynn Stanley is a visual artist and a writer. She is the recipient of 2002 grants for poetry from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Provincetown Cultural Council. A chapbook of her poems, "Gravity Claims Us," was published by Folly Cove Press. She works as a freelance writer and is the Curator of Education at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.
Image: "Rabbit Moon," watercolor & colored pencil, 7½" x 4"

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January 15, 2006
"Last Meal: Photographs"
Artist: Lisa Sette (bio).
Poet: Jonathan Fink.
Jonathan Fink was born in Lubbock, TX in 1975. He received his BA from Trinity University and his MFA from Syracuse University. From 2003-2005 he was the Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University. Currently he is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Emory. His poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, TriQuarterly, Slate and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications.
Image: Diana photograph

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January 1, 2006
"Nineteen Thirty-Four"
Artist: Anne Bradfield (bio).
Poet: Linda Bierds.
Linda Bierds is the author of eight books of poetry, including The Seconds (Putnam, 2001); The Profile-Makers (Henry Holt, 1997), which was followed by a 1998 MacArthur Award for Bierds; and, most recently, First Hand (Putnam, 2005). She teaches at the University of Washington.
Image: Pencil on paper, 8" x 10"

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December 15, 2005
"Green"
Artist: Eva Barash (bio).
Poet: Linda McCarriston.
Linda McCarriston is the author of three books of poetry: Talking Soft Dutch (Texas Tech, 1984); Eva-Mary (Another Chicago Press, 1991), which was a National Book Award Finalist; and, most recently, Little River (TriQuarterly, 2002). She lives in Alaska.
Image: Mixed meida on paper, 8" x 10"

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"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
Artist: Anne Bradfield (bio).
Poet: Walt Whitman.
Image: Pencil on paper, 8" x 10"

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