Broadsided Celebrates National Poetry Month (April)

April 1, 2010 - PRLog -- The Switcheroo is Revealed!

In the month of March, Broadsided Press posted "Turn," a painting by artist Julie Evanoff, on the Broadsided website.  Hundreds of writers sent in responses.  

For the month of April, the winning poem, "Ex Ovo Omnia," is featured as a Broadsided publication and the finalist's poem, "Turn" by Rachel Contreni Flynn, is posted on our website.  Meet the artists:

Writer Jennifer Perrine's first book of poetry, The Body Is No Machine, was published by New Issues in 2007 and won the 2008 Devil's Kitchen Reading Award in Poetry. Other recent awards include the U.S. Poets in Mexico Mérida Fellowship and first prize in the Black Warrior Review Fourth-Ever Poetry Contest and the Virginia Arts of the Books Center Taste 'Test. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals, including Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, RATTLE, and Third Coast. Perrine lives in Des Moines, Iowa, and works at Drake University, where she organizes the Writers & Critics Series and teaches courses in creative writing and gender studies.

Artist Julie Evanoff is a Brooklyn based artist who works in drawing, painting and video animation. She exhibited recently at: Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stories real and vividly imagined, Stockholm, Sweden; Hallways, Brooklyn, NY. Her animations screened in video festivals: 2k5 Video Festivall; City Without Walls, Juried Video Festival. She received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She was awarded the Geraldine Dodge Grant from The Women's Studio Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center. She received the Paul Robeson Emerging Artist Award from Rutgers University.

Finalist Rachel Contreni Flynn's second full-length collection, Tongue, won the Benjamin Saltman Award and will be published in April 2010 by Red Hen Press. Her chapbook, Haywire, was published by Bright Hill Press in 2009. Her first book, Ice, Mouth, Song, was published in 2005 by Tupelo Press, after winning the Dorset Prize. She was awarded a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2007. Her work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she received an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship in 2003. She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program and lives north of Chicago with her husband and two children.

Broadsided runs Switcheroos twice a year.  For more information, visit http://www.broadsidedpress.org

ANNOUNCING BROADSIDED'S EVENTS FOR APRIL: NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

April 23-25 is the Broadsided Post-A-Thon.
Vectors (that is, volunteers who post Broadsided locally) will plaster their communities with Broadsided publications.  They'll tweet. They'll facebook.  Then, they'll submit photos for our contest.  Winning photos in the following categories will receive a Broadsided publication signed by author and artist:

- Caught Looking: Snap a shot of someone staring at a Broadsided you've posted.
- Best Location: A unique spot for posting Broadsided.
- Arty: Moody, framed, unique in some way... this photo speaks.
- Editors' Choice: Because we don't know what you'll surprise us with!

Deadline for photos: April 27. Winners announced May 1.

Details: http://www.broadsidedpress.org/where.shtml

NEW TO BROADSIDED?

Let us orient you.  Broadsided is a monthly publication here to put literature and art on the streets.  

How Do I Get Broadsided?
Easy:  Visit http://www.broadsidedpress.org and download the pdf file (it's free, and all our archives are online, too).

How Does Broadsided Get Distributed?
You!  People we call Vectors print Broadsided and post it where they live: on office doors, in cafes, on public kiosks, in bathroom stalls.  Check out the Vector Map:  http://www.broadsidedpress.org/where.shtml

Can I Be Broadsided?
We accept submissions of poetry and prose.  Guidelines at http://www.broadsidedpress.org/guides.shtml

What's Been Broadsided?
All publications are available in our archives.  For a quick overview, check out the Broadsided Gallery:  http://www.broadsidedpress.org/more-gallery.shtml

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Broadsided Press publishes monthly visual/literary collaborations designed to be downloaded and printed by anyone with a computer. Vectors around the globe post them in public places where they live. We're here to put literature and art on the streets.