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Download the Broadsided file Writer Christopher Lee Miles grew up on a small farm in Minnesota. His work has appeared in Connecticut Review, Cortland Review, South Dakota Review, and is forthcoming in Atlanta Review and War, Literature, and the Arts. He was a finalist for the 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Prize. He served four years in the US Navy, which included deployments to both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. 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."
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Collaborators' Q & A for "Tile Drainage" Bsided: What inspires you in this poem?
Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
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Download the Broadsided file Writer Renee K. Nelson recently received her M.F.A. in Creative writing from San Francisco State University. Her poems have appeared in Transfer, in which her poem "Intermission" won the Mark Linenthal Award for poetry in 2010, Gone Lawn, Ping Pong, Hamilton Stone Review and Porter Gulch Review. Currently living in Santa Cruz, California with her two cats, she teaches composition in the Bay Area. Artist Cheryl Gross has an MFA in New Forms from Pratt. She writes: "When asked about my work, I always equate it with creating an environment transforming my inner thoughts into reality. Much like an architect or urban planner, that reality and humor becomes the foundation of the work. Beginning with the physical process, I work in layers. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, my urban influence has indeed added an "edge" to my work. Coming from a totally vertical and intense environment, I now live in Jersey City, NJ." www.cmgross.com. Image: "The red House, Indiana," 12" x 17", handmade paper, ball point, graphite, India ink.
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Collaborators' Q & A for "Red House, Indiana" Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed? Did that change?
Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
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Download the Broadsided file Writer Lisa Oritz has had poems appear in Zyzzyva, The Literary Review, Crab Creek Review and Comstock Review and have been featured on Verse Daily. She was a 2007 and 2008 recipient of Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes. Her chapbook Turns Out is available from Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Artist Kevin Morrow is a native of Wisconsin who received his BFA in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2003. Soon thereafter, he received his MFA degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand where he studied in the Contemporary Maori Department (Te Toi Hou). Upon completion, Morrow returned to the U.S. to live and work in Austin, Texas where he spent a year or so concentrating on earthworks. Morrow now lives and works in New York. Images of other work at kpmorrow.viewbook.com/ Images: Untitled, plaster, size variably 5-8" in all dimensions.
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Collaborators' Q & A for "Searching for Poems on Grief" Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Bsided: What inspires you in this poem?
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Download the Broadsided file Writer Angela Veronica Wong's Dear Johnny, In Your Last Letter was selected by Bob Hicok as a winner of the 2011 Poetry Society of America New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is also the author of the chapbooks 25 little red poems (dancing girl press 2012), to know this (Cy Gist Press 2009), and All the Little Red Girls (Flying Guillotine Press 2009). Her first full-length collection of poems is entitled how to survive a hotel fire and is forthcoming from Coconut Books in Spring 2012. Visit www.angelaveronicawong.com. Artist Meghan Keane's formative training includes fashion design and architecture/i.d. studies at Parsons School of Design, drawing at Musee du Louvre, and painting at Universidad de San Francisco de Quito. Keane exhibits nationally and internationally. Keane is the founding director of meghan.keane.studio (meghankeanestudio.com). She is also currently a teaching artist at Kentler International Drawing Space and a visiting alumni artist at the Brooklyn College art department printshop.
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Collaborators' Q & A for "Dear Johnny" Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Bsided: What inspires you in this poem?
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Download the Broadsided file Writer Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet's book Tulips, Water, Ash was selected for the 2009 Morse Prize and published by University Press of New England. Lisa was born in Stockton, California and has earned degrees from Yale University and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. After working as a technical editor, arts magazine publisher, gift wrapper, film studio gofer, and cocktail waitress, she now makes her living as a freelance editor. Her poems have been awarded a Javits fellowship and a Phelan Award, and have appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, Blackbird, The Iowa Review, 32 Poems, and Third Coast and in the anthologies Best New Poets 2005 and 2006. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son. (www.lisagluskinstonestreet.com) Artist Se Thut Quon lives in Kentucky. Image: Art for Certain, Impossible, Likely", drawing.
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Collaborators' Q & A for "Certain, Impossible, Likely" Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Bsided: When you began what aspect did you follow?
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Download the Broadsided file Writer Andy Stallings lives in New Orleans with his wife, Melissa Dickey, and their children, Esme and Curran. He teaches creative writing at Tulane University, and edits Thermos Magazine. Poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming at Clementine Magazine, I Thought I Was New Here, Jellyfish, and Sixth Finch. He also publishes somewhat frequently at Ink Node. Artist Elizabeth Terhune received her MFA from Hunter College and her BA from Oberlin College. She was the recipient of a Yaddo Fellowship in 1998. She has exhibited widely throughout the United States. Her most recent shows include a two-person show at Feast Gallery in Saratoga Springs, NY, a four-person show at Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn, NY, and a one-person exhibition at the Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY. You can view some of her work online at www.elizabethterhune.com, and selected works in the Pierogi Gallery Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY, as well as through the Drawing Center's Online Viewing Program Artist Registry. She teaches painting and drawing at the 92nd Street Y and at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies in New York City. Image: untitled, 2011, ink on prepared paper, 8" x 6"
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Collaborators' Q & A for "Harvest City" Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed? Did that change?
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Download the Broadsided file Writer Nicolas Destino says: "I completed my mfa in creative writing at Goddard College. Currently, I'm working as part-time instructor of English at The College of New Rochelle, and work as a violinist as a side gig. really don't find too much difference between musical and poetry. My love of writing is largely due to music, especially the music of J.S. Bach. I live in Jersey City with my husband." Artist Christoph Keller was born and raised in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous plays, essays anthologies and novels, including I'd Like My Country Flat (Ich hätte das Land gern flach), which won the international Lake Constance Prize, and The Best Dancer (Der Beste Tänzer), a memoir concerning his diagnosis with Spinal Muscular Atrophy and subsequent dependence on a wheelchair, which was awarded the 2004 Zurich Kantonalbank Schiller Prize and the 2006 Puchheim Readers' Prize. Keller's photographs have been shown in New York, and he often collaborates with artists, for example, providing text for Ingrid Tekenbroek (Der Sitzgott, 1994), Oliver Krähenbühl (Einige vertraute Dinge, 2003, and Daily News, 2009) and Aris Kalaizis (Making Sky, 2009). Keller is currently working on his first novel in English, River Madness. He is married to the American poet Jan Heller Levi and lives in New York.
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Collaborators' Q & A for "Indigenous" Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Bsided: What inspires you in this poem?
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Download the Broadsided file Note: "The Company of Weeds" is the eighth Switcheroo feature from Broadsided. What is The Switcheroo? We'd love to tell you. Writer Catherine Swanson has had the opportunity to observe human interaction in its diversity and connectedness for many years as a social worker, refugee advocate and ethnographer. She often writes about cultural and social justice issues, and her poems have been published in a variety of literary journals in North America and other countries. She is currently working on a book of poems related to her field research as well as a book designed to explore the experience of using public transportation. She was born in Pennsylvania and lived in New Jersey and New York City before coming to the Midwest. Her ethnographic work has taken her to California, South Carolina and other parts of the United States. She currently lives in Indianapolis where she works with refugees resettled from conflict zones. Artist Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer and teacher who sometimes writes poetry and movie reviews. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in USA and Europe and he has had 9 one-man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Hirshorn Museum & The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In 2004 he received The Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant. Currently he teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn. Image: pastel on paper, 11" x 17"
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Collaborators' Q & A for "The Company of Weeds" Bsided: What leapt out first from Ira's art? A particular image? A mood? A line?
Bsided: Anything else?
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Download the Broadsided file Writer Gabriel Welsch is the author of the collection Dirt and All Its Dense Labor (2006) and the chapbook, An Eye Fluent in Gray (2010). He is also a fiction writer, publishing stories in Georgia Review, Ascent, Southern Review, New Letters, Mid-American Review, Chautauqua, PANK, and elsewhere. While he has taught writing at the Chautauqua Institution's Writers Institute and at Penn State, where he earned an MFA, he now works as vice president of advancement and marketing at Juniata College, in Huntingdon, PA, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Artist Jim Benning is a photographer/designer loving in Anchorage, Alaska using images to show how he sees things, places and people that ignite his curiosity. He says: "Interesting images go beyond the initial pull of the visual and instigate contemplation of attraction and response over a longer time. As a member of the board for the Alaska Photographic Center I work to bring photographers to Alaska to share their photographic vision and inspiration with the local community."
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Collaborators' Q & A for "No Diving" Bsided: What surprised you about this collaborative piece?
Bsided: What inspires you in this poem?
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Download the Broadsided file Writer Jane Hirshfield's seventh poetry collection, Come, Thief, which includes this poem, will be published by Knopf in August 2011. Her six previous collections include After, named a "best book of 2006" by The Washington Post, San Francisco Chrnoicle, and England's Financial Times, and Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include the California Book Award in Poetry, the Poetry Center Book Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the NEA, and the Academy of American Poets. Hirshfield lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Artist Gabriel 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). In February 2009, Gabe spent a month in residence at the Vermont Studio Center working with mixed-media and paint and breathing new life into his studio practice. Image: "Perimeter," 9x11", mixed media
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Collaborators' Q & A for "Critique of Pure Reason" Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed?
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Download the Broadsided file Writer J.D. Smith has published two collections, Settling for Beauty (2005) and The Hypothetical Landscape, and in 2007 he was awarded a Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes on three occasions and have appeared in literary journals including Able Muse, lyric poetry review, Measure, Tar River Poetry and Texas Review. His prose in several genres has appeared in journals including American Book Review, Boulevard, Chelsea, Exquisite Corpse, the Los Angeles Times and Pleiades. Smith's one-act play "Dig" was produced in London in June 2010, and his first children's book, The Best Mariachi in the World, was published in bilingual, Spanish and English editions in 2008 and was named one of the year's best children's books by Críticas Magazine. His first collection of essays, Dowsing and Science, was published in early 2011. A resident of Washington, DC, he provides updates at http://jdsmithwriter.blogspot.com. Artist Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn New York. He is a sculptor, painter, book dealer and teacher who sometimes writes poetry and movie reviews. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in USA and Europe and he has had 9 one-man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Hirshorn Museum & The Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In 2004 he received The Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grant. Currently he teaches art at the United Federation of Teachers Retiree Program in Brooklyn. (View Ira's Work)
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Collaborators' Q & A for "Botanical Garden" Bsided: If you had to represent the Broadsided of "Botanical Garden" with one word, what would it be?
Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed?
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NOTE: Inspired by Carrier's Addresses and a deep commitment to public art, the HYIR is a special feature that debuted this year at Broadsided. Four artists created work in response to an event that for them dominated a season of 2010. We placed an open call for submissions of haiku that did the same. The art and the poems selected as finalists were posted online, and we asked you to vote on the winning combinations. Details can be seen at HYIR 2010. We hope to make this an annual Broadsided feature. Meet the authors and artists below. Download the Broadsided file WINTER
Caleb Brown is an artist. He works on software interfaces and reads and walks and is going to make graphic novels someday. Or little dioramas. Or really big paintings. Or all of those things—and maybe this will be the year! He lives in Groton, MA with his wife, puppy and two tween twins, See more at www.caleb-brown.com. SPRING
Artist Cheryl Gross writes: "When asked about my work, I always equate it with creating an environment transforming my inner thoughts into reality. Beginning with the physical process, I work in layers. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, my urban influence has indeed added an "edge" to my work. Coming from a totally vertical and intense environment, I now live in Jersey City, NJ." www.cmgross.com SUMMER
Artist Kate Baird looks for the distances and differences between places through drawing and painting. She received an MFA from the University of Chicago in 2005 and currently works as a teaching artist at the Guggenheim Museum and the Kentler International Drawing Space. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter, and her work can be seen at www.katebairdart.com. FALL
Artist Jennifer Moses is a painter living in Boston. She is also a professor of art at the University of New Hampshire. She has exhibited her work throughout New England her most recent solo exhibition titled "A Line is a Straight Curve" was at the Kingston Gallery in Boston. www.jennifermosespainting.com.
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Collaborators' Q & A for the 2010 HYIR Bsided: Why did this event inspire you?
Bsided: How do you think the four art/haiku combinations create a conversation about 2010?
Bsided: Why did this event inspire you?
Bsided: How do you think the four art/haiku combinations create a conversation about 2010?
Bsided: Once you saw the art for your season, did it cause you to see your haiku in a different light?
Bsided: How do you think the four art/haiku combinations create a conversation about 2010?
Bsided: Why did this event inspire you?
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