BROADSIDED: 2012

December 1, 2012
"Majestic Prayers of Bangor"
Poem by Sean Prentiss
Art by Kate Baird

Download the Broadsided file
(500kb PDF)

Poet Sean Prentiss was once a boy who after high school drove white-knuckled out of Bangor. He still returns some summer nights to its long wooden bars (and chilled bottles of Yuengling lager). He is also the editor of a forthcoming anthology on the craft of creative nonfiction, The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre. As often as possible (five months a year), he lives in a hand built cabin on the side of a Colorado hillside where he splits wood and builds an outhouse.

Artist Kate Baird lives in Springfield, MO. She is a painter and works as teaching artist with Placeworks, an arts outreach program for rural schools. Her work can be seen at www.katebairdart.com.
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "Majestic Prayers of Bangor"

Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed? Did that change? What surprised you when you saw the poem and art together?
Artist Kate Baird: I began with the town she wanted out of, and its visual properties (to me) were: grimy or gritty, colorless, worn down, smudgy. And then there was the fact that she felt trapped there, as her parents had been, so I thought it was important to make the image sort of claustrophobic and difficult to navigate free of.

Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Poet Sean Prentiss: ...This collaboration is how we all work when we see art or read a poem. The artist creates. And then the reader or the viewer interprets in their mind. But with this work, I get to see Kate Baird's thoughts on my work through her images—the stark trees (or tree-like images), the soft colors along the bottom, the collage effect....

Read the full responses from Kate and Sean.
 

November 1, 2012
"Lexiconography 1"
Poem by Heid E. Erdrich
Art by Meghan Keane

"April and Silence"
Poem by Tomas Tranströmer
Translation by Michael McGriff
Art by Douglas Culhane

"April och tystnad"
Poem by Tomas Tranströmer
Art by Amy Meissner

Poet Heid E. Erdrich has authored four books of poetry including National Monuments, winner of the 2009 Minnesota Book Award and the recent Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems. Heid grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe.

Artist Meghan Keane exhibits nationally and internationally. Recent projects include a solo exhibition and feature documentary film, "PROJECT NIHON / sustainable art travel," in Tokyo, Japan and a three person show in Quito, Ecuador. 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.

Translator Margaret Noori directs the Comprehensive Studies Program and teaches the Anishinaabe Language and American Indian Literature at the University of Michigan. She is also one of the founders of the drum group Miskwaasining Nagamojig, current President of Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, one of the Clan Mothers who coordinate the annual Native American Literature Symposium, and member of the Anishinaabemowin-Teg Executive Board. She edits the journal Mashkogaabiwiiton Anishinaabemowin, has had essays and poems published widely, and her book, Bwaajimowin: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature is forthcoming from MSU Press. For more information or to view current projects visit www.ojibwe.net where she and her colleagues have created a space for language that is shared by academics and the native community.

Poet Tomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm, Sweden. The author of numerous books of poetry, he was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. Tranströmer is a respected psychologist, and has worked at a juvenile prison, and with the disabled, convicts, and drug addicts.

Translator Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He is the author of Choke, Dismantling the Hills, and Home Burial. He is also the co-translator (with Mikaela Grassl) of Tomas Tranströmer's The Sorrow Gondola, editor of To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill, and a founder and editor of Tavern Books (tavernbooks.com).

Artist Douglas Culhane works in sculpture and drawing. He has exhibited in New York and New England. See more of his work at www.douglasculhane.com.

Artist Amy Meissner is a writer and children's book illustrator living in Anchorage, Alaska. www.amymeissner.com
 

Collaborators' Q & A

Bsided: Do you see an overlap between the act of translation and the act of responding visually to a piece of literature?
Artist Douglas Culhane: For me translation requires a certain kind of accuracy balanced with an intuive, aestheic sense of the new work....

Bsided: What is it like to see both visual responses to the poem?
Translator Michael McGriff: There's something new and exciting when text leaves the page and enters the realm of the visual—it reminds us that words take up house and carry meaning no matter how they appear before us....

Bsided: Why this poem? Why the original language?
Artist Amy Meissner: My mother is Swedish—all her family is still there...the artwork features wool needlepoint, one of a trunk-full of handwork that has come to me over the years from Sweden....

Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Poet Heid E. Erdrich:

Bsided: Margaret, you wove your translations into the text so that they became part of the poem's story—can you talk about that experience?
Translator Margaret Noori: It was very much like swimming through wind instead of water with the same body you have always used, but surrounded by something new.

Bsided: This poem translates itself as it moves. How did that act influence your visual response?
Artist Meghan Keane: It was very organic for this visual response to loop, drape, and flow in ways similar to the unfolding and self-translating quality of the poem...

Read the full responses from poets, translators, and artists.
 

October 1, 2012
"Pescados de Pesadillas"
Poem by Nicky Beer
Art by Se Thut Quon

Download the Broadsided file
(276kb PDF)

Poet Nicky Beer is the author of The Diminishing House, which won the 2010 Colorado Book Award for poetry. Her awards include a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Discovery/The Nation Award, and a Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she co-edits the journal Copper Nickel.

Artist Se Thut Quon lives in Kentucky. This is his fourth Broadsided collaboration. His response to "Omnivore" (February, 2012) was picked up by the curators of the Moby Dick Big Read to accompany Chapter 108, "Ahab and the Carpenter."
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "Pescados de Pesadillas"

Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed? Did that change? What surprised you when you saw the poem and art together?
Artist Se Thut Quon: ...A barren expanse awaits whatever may wash up: an attenuated form emerges from a dark and frothy sea. Collage adds a dreamlike exchange of elements; Medusa's accusing eyes are inescapable....

Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Poet Nicky Beer: I think there's more apocalyptic menace in the image than I'd originally seen in the poem, but considering that the poem itself ends with a speculative gesture towards the kind of nightmares that Salvador Dali might have had, this seems like just the ticket.

Read the full responses from Se and Nicky.
 

September 1, 2012
"Dhanaivi at 16 in the South Bronx"
Writing by Dolan Morgan
Art by Sarah Van Sanden

Download the Broadsided file
(440kb PDF)

Writer Dolan Morgan lives and writes in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His work has been featured in The Believer, The Lifted Brow, Field, TRNSFR, apt, Cricket Online Review, Fortnight and numerous other journals, both online and in print. He is a member of the writers collective, 1441, and is currently cataloging every airplane hijacking in history. www.dolanmorgan.com

Artist Sarah Van Sanden lives in Seattle, where she takes every opportunity to relish in urban nature. She has studied visual art, botany and design and makes her living designing and building landscapes. In her spare time she works on various creative projects with plants and plant materials.
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "Dhanaivi at 16 in the South Bronx"

Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed? Did that change? What surprised you when you saw the poem and art together?
Artist Sarah Van Sanden: I'm really attuned to spatial descriptions, so the cityscape immediately came alive in my mind while reading this poem. That was the obvious way in for me. But the poem has so much complexity, and I agonized about how to represent it. I guess I had to give up trying to represent it. Upon seeing the two together, the combination of text and image strikes me as surprisingly free of complexity, but I think it works.

Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Writer Dolan Morgan: ....Also, there's this giant matchstick here in the picture, which legitimately scares me. Who is going to pick that thing up and when? ...

Read the full responses from Dolan and Sarah.
 

August 1, 2012
"Stop Doing That"
Poem by Christopher Citro
Art by Amy Meissner

Download the Broadsided file
(572kb PDF)

Writer Christopher Citro's poetry appears or is forthcoming in Poetry East, Arts & Letters Prime, Fourteen Hills, Tar River Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, The Cortland Review, Harpur Palate, Faultline, Permafrost, and elsewhere. His poetry has been featured twice on Verse Daily and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Airplane Reading, and his criticism in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Indiana Review. He won the 2006 Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award in Poetry and holds an MFA in poetry from Indiana University. He can be found online at christophercitro.com. "Stop Doing That" first appeared in Poet Lore.

Artist Amy Meissner is a writer and children's book illustrator living in Anchorage, Alaska. Pelle, her son, is 6. They collaborated on the images for "Stop Doing That" from their manuscript, Hatches, which is based on a story Pelle told one morning—"Something you don't know, that I know, is that planets have hatches and you can climb these ladders to go in and out. The biggest hatches are at the tops of the planets, and those are for the rockets, of course..." Amy can't take her son anywhere anymore, either. www.amymeissner.com
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "Stop Doing That"

Bsided: What inspires you in this poem?
Artist Amy Meissner: ...As an artist and a mother I struggle and struggle to create, while my children do it so naturally and constantly. "Of course we are building a rocket! Of course we are writing a play! What are YOU doing, Mama?"....

Bsided: Anything else?
Poet Christopher Citro: Back in high school I used to make anonymous photocopied collage zines to plaster the school, and in college a friend and I used to fill plastic Easter eggs with one line poems and leave them around town, in classrooms, in the pockets of clothes hanging in stores, in parked cars with their windows open. I am immeasurably proud to know that Amy's and my collaboration will be posted by Broadsided Vectors in places I couldn't even imagine.

Read the full responses from Amy and Christopher.
 

July 1, 2012
"Matches"
Poem by George David Clark
Art by Meghan Keane

Download the Broadsided file
(584kb PDF)

Writer George David Clark's honors include the Henry Hoyns Fellowship from the University of Virginia and the Provost's Doctoral Fellowship from Texas Tech University. His poems have appeared most recently in Copper Nickel, The Journal, River Styx, and Southern Poetry Review, and can be found reprinted online at Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. He teaches poetry as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow at Colgate University and serves as the editor of 32 Poems.

Artist Meghan Keane exhibits nationally and internationally. Recent projects include a solo exhibition, "PROJECT NIHON / sustainable art travel," in Tokyo; a group exhibition, "Casa de Munecas" in Quito, Ecuador and "do it yourself candide," which Keane was invited to create for the New York Public Library (January, 2010). 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.

Art: Untitled, monoprint with pen and string, 4" x 5.5"
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "Matches"

Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed? Did that change?
Artist Meghan Keane: ...I was surprised to discover my final gesture was a somewhat violent one (arguing perhaps?) when I punched holes and lastly sewed with needle and thread into the paper, creating the two dark black lines. I have actually left the needle on the thread; it is hiding behind the work....

Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Poet George Clark: The image got me thinking about the tension between colors and shapes in the poem, how the angles of the matchbox play off the cursive signature in soot...

Read the full responses from George and Meghan.
 

June 1, 2012
"Bereavement Dinner"
Poem by Emma Sovich
Art by Kara Searcy

Download the Broadsided file
(299kb PDF)

Writer Emma Sovich, a Baltimore native, edits Black Warrior Review and is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama. She makes, writes, reads, and bakes in a house in a graveyard. Find work of hers at PANK, The Battered Suitcase, and Ampersand: Journal of the PCBA, among others.

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."
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "Bereavement Dinner"

Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed? Did that change?
Artist Kara Searcy: ...I wondered what it might look like to have a photograph that didn't seem to directly relate to the poem, but could if the reader/viewer gave it some thought. I was thinking about the author's perspective verses a reader's perspective...

Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Poet Emma Sovich: ...I had been mourning the loss of our home movies (accidentally put in a good will bag while cleaning), and the odd figures reminded me of distorted children's toys and thus of memories and what we lose with time. The receipt made me think about what memories are worth...

Read the full responses from Emma and Kara.
 

May 1, 2012
"Cost Benefit"
Poem by Lisa Allen Ortiz
Art by Cheryl Gross

Download the Broadsided file
(548kb PDF)

Note: "Cost Benefit" is the ninth Switcheroo feature from Broadsided. What is The Switcheroo? We'd love to tell you.

Writer Lisa Allen Ortiz is currently an MFA candidate at Pacific University. Her poems have appeared in Zyzzyva, The Literary Review and Crab Orchard Review, and her chapbook Turns Out was published last year by Main Street Publishing Company. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Artist Cheryl Gross is a painter, illustrator, mini-documentarian, and motion graphics animator. She has an MFA in New Forms from Pratt, where she now teaches. 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: "Best Friends," 12" x 17", handmade paper, ball point, graphite, India ink.
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "Cost Benefit"

Bsided: What surprises you about Lisa's poem in conversation with your art?
Artist Cheryl Gross: I'm always surprised when someone picks up my work and responds to it. I particularly like the fact that she can see things in it that I don't. Basically because I'm too close to it.

Bsided: This poem was chosen in response to Cheryl Gross's art—can you talk about the experience of finding words that were in conversation with the image? What leapt out first from Cheryl's art? A particular image? A mood? A line?
Poet Lisa Allen Ortiz: ...I had been mourning the loss of our home movies (accidentally put in a good will bag while cleaning), and the odd figures reminded me of distorted children's toys and thus of memories and what we lose with time. The receipt made me think about what memories are worth...

Read the full responses from Cheryl and Lisa.
 

April 1, 2012
"Delivering to the Client"
Poem by Paul Dickey
Art by Ira Joel Haber

Download the Broadsided file
(396kb PDF)

Writer Paul Dickey's They Say This is How Death Came Into the World was published by Mayapple Press in January, 2011. His poetry has appeared recently in Verse Daily, Rattle, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Mid-American Review, Free Lunch, Crab Orchard Review and online at www.linebreak.org, among many other online and print publications. A poetry chapbook What Wisconsin Took was published by The Parallel Press in 2006. Paul Dickey holds a Master of Arts degree from Indiana University, Bloomington in the History and Philosophy of Science. His poetry first appeared in leading regional literary journals in the 1970s. Dickey has written several one-act plays and one full-length play, The Good News According to St. Dude. Besides writing, Dickey teaches philosophy at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, NE. More information and notes on publishing activity can be found here.

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.
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "Delivering to the Client"

Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed? Did that change?
Artist Ira Joel Haber: This is the first broadside that I've done that was a completely new work. For previous collaborations I've worked with existing art works and then played with them in Photoshop, changing them. But with this one I began by doing a series of collages based on the images that I picked up and out of the poem, and farms and nature stood out for me, so I based my collages on that.

Bsided: What surprised you about this collaborative piece?
Poet Paul Dickey: That the artist depicted quite accurately, I think, many other farm poems I have written and a theme in which I thought I had tired of and had avoided in this poem. Somehow perhaps he saw beyond the images of this particular poem to the unconscious essence in many of my earlier farm poems and which still informs the current one.

Read the full responses from Ira and Paul.
 

March 1, 2012
"The Ringmaster Answers the Phone"
Poem by Amorak Huey
Art by Meghan Keane

Download the Broadsided file
(680kb PDF)

Writer Amorak Huey recently left the newspaper business after 15 years as a reporter and editor. He now teaches creative and professional writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, where he lives with his wife and two children. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Western Michigan University. His poem have appeared in The Southern Review, Oxford American, Subtropics, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review and many other journals. More information is available at his website: www.amorakhuey.net.

Artist Meghan Keane exhibits nationally and internationally and her works can be found in private collections throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe and Japan. Recent projects include a solo exhibition, "PROJECT NIHON / sustainable art travel," in Tokyo; a group exhibition, "Casa de Munecas" in Quito, Ecuador and "do it yourself candide," which Keane was invited to create for the New York Public Library (january 2010). 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.
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "The Ringmaster Answers the Phone"

Bsided: When you began this piece, was it color, shape, or some other aspect that you followed? Did that change?
Artist Meghan Keane: I began these monoprints with repeating lines. There was something in the mesmerizing aspect of the poem, being trapped in a certain state, like the shark and the people in the poem, that kind of launched the work. Drawing square, within square, within square.... The color came after.

Bsided: Did the visual artist refract any element of the poem that made you see the poem differently?
Poet Amorak Huey: I was struck immediately by the tension—frustration? anger, maybe even?—on the right side of the page. I love the messiness of it, the scribbling-out of it,—and I also love the brightness of the red at the left hinting at something more vivid happening off the page.

Read the full responses from Amorak and Meghan.
 

February 1, 2012
"Omnivore"
Poem by James Arthur
Art by Se Thut Quon

Download the Broadsided file
(228kb PDF)

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

Image: "Art for Omnivore," 8.5" x 11," Digital photograph
 

Collaborators' Q & A for "Omnivore"

Bsided: What inspires you in this poem?
Artist Se Thut Quon: I favor tales of excess over outlines for moderation. I have trouble throwing things away. The poem satisfies by mixing brutal opportunism with a righteous abhorrence of waste.

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.

Read the full responses from James and Se.
 

January 1, 2012
"2011 Haiku Year-in-Review"

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 2011. 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 2011. Meet the authors and artists below.

Download the Broadsided file
(488kb PDF)

WINTER
Writer Peter Kline's recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2010 Morton Marr Prize from Southwest Review, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He lives in San Francisco.

Artist Kara Searcy is a multi-media artist from Iowa. Examples of her work can be found at http://fallstraightback.deviantart.com/. She loves constellations, Jesus, and the word "ricochet."

SPRING
Writer Steve Brightman lives in Kent, Ohio. His poems have been featured in Pudding House, Origami Condom, A Trunk of Delirium and he was included in the Ohio Bicentennial Anthology titled I Have My Own Song For It: Modern Poems about Ohio.

Artist Caleb Brown is an artist who works on software interfaces. He lives in Groton, MA with his wife, puppy and two tween twins, See more at www.caleb-brown.com.

SUMMER
Writer Peter Kline's recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2010 Morton Marr Prize from Southwest Review, as well as a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He lives in San Francisco.

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. More at her website.

FALL
Writer Jennifer Jabaily-Blackburn is a recent graduate of the MFA at the University of Arkansas. Her poems have appeared most recently in Unsplendid, Hayden's Ferry Review, and the Sugar House Review. A native of the Boston area, she lives in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts with her husband and their elderly hound.

Artist Kevin Morrow is a native of Wisconsin who received his MFA degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand where he studied in the Contemporary Maori Department (Te Toi Hou). Morrow now lives and works in New York. Images of other work at kpmorrow.viewbook.com/
 

Collaborators' Q & A for the 2011 HYIR

Bsided: Once you saw the art for your season, did it cause you to see your haiku in a different light?
Poet Peter Kline: I was surprised at how closely her vision of the tragedy matched the vision of my poem—both of our works simultaneously mythologize the wave and put it on a human scale.

Bsided: Once you saw the haiku for your season, did it cause you to see your art in a different light?
Artist Kara Searcy: I was surprised that the haiku brought attention to the largest and smallest things in the drawing, the wave and the sun, and then brought them intimately close with an action.

Bsided: How do you think the four art/haiku combinations create a conversation about 2011?
Poet Steve Brightman: All of the haiku finalists and the art—especially in tandem—really force you, as a human, to revisit the significance of the year. All of these things can really numb you when framed by the 24 hour news cycle. It's a barrage.

Bsided: Once you saw the haiku for your season, did it cause you to see your art in a different light?
Artist Caleb Brown: The either/or structure of the poem was a good complement to the picture—which can be "right-side up" for only one of the women at a time. Unless the image is viewed sideways.

Bsided: How do you think the four art/haiku combinations create a conversation about 2011?
Poet Peter Kline: Each season of the Haiku Year-in-Review seemed characterized by an interplay between human and inhuman forces.

Bsided: Why did this event inspire you?
Artist Jennifer Moses: I was mostly spellbound by the change in light, smell, and temperature that occurs even when the fires were relatively far away.

Bsided: Once you saw the art for your season, did it cause you to see your haiku in a different light?
Poet Jennifer Jabaily-Blackburn: I wonder if my poem sounds more plaintive next to the artwork, and that wasn't necessarily my intention.

Bsided: Why did this event inspire you?
Artist Kevin Morrow: You cannot avoid the protest at your front door. And you cannot turn away from the opportunity to document history.

Read the full responses from the artists and poets.