Sunday, September 4, 2011

September Broadsided Collaboration: Vectorize!




Dear Vectors and Friends of Broadsided,
Thank you for your feedback last month - it sounds like many of you are excited about the idea of a Flickr account for Broadsided where you can share your Vectorizing adventures. We think it's a great idea! After our summer hiatus, we'll be opening the door for submissions again on the 15th of this month. Please send good writing - yours or that of people you know - our way.

With Thanks, The Broadsided Editorial Team

"Dear Johnny" 


Poem by Angela Veronica Wong 
Art by Se Thut Quon
Writer Angela Veronica Wong is the author of two chapbooks, 'All th Little Red Girls' on Flying Guillotine Press and 'to know this' on Cy Gist Press. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, and Vanitas. She lives in Manhattan.

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.


Collaborators' Q&A:
...I think that the artistic response showed me how much of the poem has imagery of parting, of coming together, of lifelines and the uncertainty of reaching out. The image brings to mind roads and pathways, of course, but also tributaries, roots, veins, the heart...

Read more of what the poet and artist had to say about their Broadsided experience and visit www.broadsidedpress.org to get the full broadside.

 ON THE STREETS
Broadsided at the door of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Where do you Vectorize? Send us your pictures from Vectorhood!

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