Now, Here, The Broadside: A Generative Workshop

With Kamelya Omayma Youssef

"A surface. A wall. A monument. An etching. Markings on a surface. Let us together work in the form of the broadside, the single sheet that is a canvas. A single object among single objects constituting collective anythings. Communities, gatherings, time periods, proximities, relations, existences, beings, books? Maybe we make broadsides & make ‘em together."

In this workshop, Participants worked together to create their own Broadsides with inspiration from the official Broadside Lotus Press archives located in the Detroit Public Library.

The Broadside Press was a leading publisher of poetry of the Black Arts Movement. Founded in Detroit in 1965 by Dudley Randall, They published Broadsides by poets such as Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, & Sonia Sanchez.

Participating Artists & Collaborators:

Expanding usage of the poet’s page as a canvas with Kamelya Omayma Youssef, an author of A book with a hole in it (Wendy’s Subway, 2022). Youssef is a text and performance worker who teaches, edits, and organizes events. Her work is published by 1080Press, Mizna, Sukoon, the Margins, Poem-a-Day and elsewhere. She and you will see a free Palestine in this lifetime.