Cobalt Poets: broadsides

Broadsides

For each of our featured readers we publish a broadside featuring one of their poems. We do this to compensate our featured readers for their time because we: a) think it's a cool thing to do, b) don't have any money to pay our featured readers, and c) feel funny about passing the tip hat around.

Broadsides are available for a minimum $1.00 donation at the readings. All of the money goes directly to the featured poet.

broadsides we've published:

Mr. Viced Honest
by Mike Daily
published May 6, 2008

On Avoiding Stendhal Syndrome
by Ellaraine Lockie
published April 29, 2008

Nothing is Certain But the Body
by Mitchell Untch
published April 15, 2008

Letter to Anne Sexton
by Carrie Seitzinger
published April 1, 2008

Sangre Ardiente
by reina alejandra prado
published March 18, 2008

Beirut Blues
by Armine Iknadossian
published March 4, 2008

carmen meets pancho villa & lalo guerrero
by Don Newton
published February 19, 2008

The Roses
by Gabrielle Mittelbach
published February 12, 2008

The boxer who doesn't hear the bell
by Eric Steineger
published February 5, 2008

Behold
by Rob Evans
published January 22, 2008

The Oldest Street in Town
by Jennifer Lively
published January 15, 2008

For Your Felicitous and Discerning
Consideration: An Open Enquiry into
Life’s Primary Pursuits of Work and Love
by Julie Bemiss
published December 18, 2007

From Saddle Peak
by Hilda Weiss
published December 11, 2007

A Woman With a Chameleon on Her Hat
by Suzanne Lummis
published December 4, 2007

Plant Sanctuary
by Carine Topal
published November 20, 2007

Destined to be Unfinished
by Jonathan Knell
published November 13, 2007

Oh, India
by Peggy Dobreer
published November 6, 2007

cigarettes and me
by Rob Sturma AKA Ratpack Slim
published October 16, 2007

Dancing with Dad
by Theresa
published October 9, 2007

Strange Flesh
by Michelle Bitting
published October 2, 2007

Beating Balaam's Ass
by Timothy Green
published September 18, 2007

Noho Nigger
by Radomir Luza
published September 11, 2007

haiku
by Paul Koenig
published September 4, 2007

Prayer
by Mani Suri
published August 21, 2007

Lessons in Women's Studies
by Annette Sugden
published August 7, 2007

Marmalade
by Russell Salamon
published July 17, 2007

The Night of Truth
by CaLokie
published July 10, 2007

el cajon boulevard at moonrise
by Max Kaisler
published July 3, 2007

Laundry Ride on Bus 11
by Ambika Talwar
published June 19, 2007

Self Examination with Binoculars
by Arlan Mitnick
published June 12, 2007

Ceaseless Greasepaint in Combat Stance
by Ken Jones
published June 5, 2007

untitled
by Dennis Cruz
published May 15, 2007

Hawkeye
by Eric Howard
published February 13, 2007
Released May 8, 2007

Visitation Night
by Pam Ward
published May 1, 2007

Poetry, It's All Good
by Brenda Petrakos
published April 17, 2007

a gargoyle on tuesday
by Marie Lecrivain
published April 10, 2007

How To Grow Up Anti-War
by Jane Cassady
published March 20, 2007

I would be Scheherazade
by Lady G
published March 13, 2007

And While You're At It
by Franceye
published March 6, 2007

Marbelized Cheese
by Carmen Vega
published February 20, 2007

Chopin
by Raindog RD Armstrong
published February 6, 2007

She Said
by George McDonald
published January 16, 2007

White
by Douglas Richardson
published December 19, 2006

Celebrate The Geek
by A.J. Shayin
published December 12, 2006

limbogodisappearo
by Beth Ruscio
published December 5, 2006

Attack of the Pod People
by Damien Stednitz
published November 14, 2006

The Image of My Father
by Emil Brikha
published November 7, 2006

Drift
by Bruna Mori
published October 17, 2006

The Space Between Things
by Kevin Patrick Sullivan
published October 3, 2006

What the Plumber Wants, What the Plumber Needs
by Jim Ruland
published September 19, 2006

why lemon water?
by Jason Brain
published September 12, 2006

Oh Wicked, Wicked
by Amelie Frank
published September 5, 2006

Every Now is Everything
by Rich Ferguson
published August 15, 2006

Adam's Eden
by Manuel Gallego
published August 8, 2006

This Precise Desire
by Rachel Kann
published August 1, 2006

Caes Odenburg's "Soft Thinker"
by Robert Wynne
published July 25, 2006

Hungry
by Danielle Grilli
published July 18, 2006

Pacific Surfliner
by Jamie Asaye FitzGerald
published June 20, 2006

Instead of Goodbye
by Jerry Beale
published June 13, 2006

Fire
by Carlye Archibeque
published June 6, 2006

There is Such a Thing
by Stan Apps
published May 16, 2006

Jonah Waiting
by Marra Hamma
published May 9, 2006

Showdown at the OC Corral
by Dmitry Berenson and Aaron Roberts
published May 2, 2006

Cinema Dance
by Ellyn Maybe
published April 11, 2006

Sphere
by Kate Gale
published April 4, 2006

Sleeping Beauty
by Ramon Garcia
published March 21, 2006

the night valley
by Kirk Lumpkin
published March 14, 2006

Transitory Endings
by Jack Cooper
published March 7, 2006

kiss the bongwater
by Keith Niles
published February 21, 2006

The Night Cloth
by Sarah Maclay
published February 7, 2006

The Differences
by Claudia Handler
published January 17, 2006

A Visit from the Candy Girl
by Leslie Anne Mcilroy
published January 10, 2006

One Global Human Family
by Mike Sonksen
published December 20, 2005

A Painful Case
by Dan garcia-Black
published December 6, 2005

Hard Town
by Wanda Van Hoy Smith
published November 15, 2005

Back Home
by Mark States
published November 8, 2005

Office Partying
by Brian Spellman
published November 1, 2005

You, Again
by Cathie Sandstrom
published October 18, 2005

THE WALL, December 2002
by Tucker Smallwood
published October 11, 2005

How to be Russian
by Adam Bresson
published October 4, 2005

Hail to the Things I Cannot See
by Steve Abee
published September 20, 2005

Remembering Beverly
by Jeffrey Alan Rochlin
published September 13, 2005

What the Lizard Knows
by Larry Colker
published September 6, 2005

Hungry Ghosts
by Hope Alvarado
published August 16, 2005

Why Don't They Sell Boo Like Bourbon
by Michael C. Ford
published August 9, 2005

Afflicted < > Marketed
by Tess Lotta
published July 26, 2005

Irish History Explained in 16 Lines
(or, Did You Ever Wonder Why so Many
of the Great Writers Are Irish?
by Jack McCarthy
published July 5, 2005

No I can't Spare a Dime you Evil Human
(a proposal in action)
by Teka-Lark Lo
published June 21, 2005

Vegas
by Cyrus Sepahbodi
published June 14, 2005

Lexicon
by Jerry Garcia
published June 7, 2005

In the Chinatown Galleries
by Andrea Quaid
published May 17, 2005

When There's No More Need To Vacuum
by Laure Hite
published May 10, 2005

911
by Jaha Zainabu
published May 3, 2005

a postcard from my tibet
by Stosh Machek
published April 26, 2005

Observations in a Café Thought Collision
by David Gale
published April 12, 2005

Remember Tito
by E. Amato
published April 5, 2005

Poem To Eat
by Alice Pero
published March 15, 2005

Implied
by Scott Miller
published March 8, 2005

Appetentia
by Patrick James Mooney
published March 1, 2005

Immersed
by James Gabriel
published February 15, 2005

what's in your pocket
by Joe Dino
published February 8, 2005

Split Ends
by Victor Infante
published February 1, 2005

Split Ends
by Alicia Vogl Saenz
published January 25, 2005

untitled
by Lauren Barker
published December 14, 2004

Auralgami
by Richad Beban
published December 7, 2004

As in, beginnings
by Jennifer K. Dick
published November 16, 2004

Catherine de Medici Swayed Fetchingly
by Elizabeth Iannaci
published November 9, 2004

life
by V. Kali Nurigan
published October 19, 2004

Memory Avenue
by Sheehan Halter
published October 12, 2004

Warmth
by Nelson Gary
published October 5, 2004

Sun Breathed Yellow
by Say-Vun Khov
published September 21, 2004

Delayed Harvest
by Michael Ruggiero
published September 14, 2004

poems
by Opposed Thumb
published September 7, 2004

Icon
by Ethan Gilsdorf
published August 31, 2004

Butterflies and Whiskey, 1906
by Brett Myhren
published August 17, 2004

The Poet as Surgeon
by James Pinkerton
published August 10, 2004

Sinking overwhelms motion
by Frankie Drayus
published August 3, 2004

Wherever
by Eric Gudas
published July 13, 2004

A Man Leaving
by Michelle Daugherty
published June 15, 2004

tonight, she drew a smile & the sea word
by Mike Adams
published June 8, 2004

a rap in the voice of the ultimate gangsta: George W. Bush
by Jeffrey McDaniel
published June 1, 2004

Fearful Symmetry
by Amaranth Borsuk
published May 18, 2004

This Poem is For Sale
by Terry McCarty
published May 11, 2004

Godma
by Christian Elder
published February 2, 2004
Released May 4, 2004

Berkeley Hills Exodus
by Robert Peake
published April 20, 2004

Fear's Flowers
by Justin Bruckner
published April 13, 2004

A Kick in the Chest
by Derrick Brown
published April 6, 2004

Having it All
by Anne Silver
published Marh 16, 2004

Acoustic Revolution
by Danny Scuderi
published Marh 9, 2004

Forgetting To Fill Up In Saskatoon
by Neil Aitken
published February 17, 2004

PredicamentEMBELLISHMENT
by Jeffrey Scott Liebling
published February 10, 2004

Apricot
by Margaret Wang
published January 20, 2004

Bread
by Gwendolyn Alley
published December 16, 2003

Laundry - part two
by Allie Pisarro-Grant
published December 9, 2003

How to Not Break-Up with Margaret
by Wayman Barnes
published December 2, 2003

City Sounds
by Jeremy Radin
published November 11, 2003

Orange Jellies in the Aquarium
by June Melby
published November 4, 2003

The Model Maker
by Greg Ennis
published October 21, 2003

Hollow Pictures
by Angel Perales
published October 14, 2003

Highway 101 Revisted
by Eitan Kadosh
published October 7, 2003

Where am I From?
by Jasmin Vargas
published September 16, 2003

This is Getting Really Casual
by Cylvia Chylde D'Marquez
published September 9, 2003

I Dream the Light of Reason II
by Laurel Ann Bogen
published September 2, 2003

My Writing Helmet
by Tim Donnelly
published August 19, 2003

After
by Jamie Kazay
published August 12, 2003

Directions
by Murray
published August 5, 2003

Barbie and Ken in the Garden of Eden
by John Casey
published July 22, 2003

The Clean Your Plate Club
by Maxwell Just Maxwell
published July 8, 2003

untitled Baghdad poem
by Jerry Quickley
published July 1, 2003

Drop Dead
by Anthony Lee
published June 17, 2003

Mermaid
by Leslie Maryann Neal
published June 10, 2003

Convenience Stores
by Buddy Wakefield
published June 3, 2003

On a Theme by William Stafford
by Millicent Borges
published May 20, 2003

Burbank
by Dave Nordling
published May 13, 2003

untitled because no title is good enough
by Mindy Nettifee
published May 6, 2003

Ladies, all the ladies, all the ladies (in the house)
by Rocío Carlos
published April 15, 2003

To My Butt White Goth Vampire Dream Girl
by Mark White
published April 8, 2003

To Victor and Speed Through Dark
by Steve Ramirez and Ben Trigg
published April 1, 2003

Tree/Woman
by Charlotte O'Brien
published March 18, 2003

Welcome to the Twilight Zone
by Justin Winston
published March 11, 2003

Smallville
by Jaimes Palacio
published March 4, 2003

Mailman
by Doug Dvorkin
published February 11, 2003

Variations on a Theme by Ferdinand Magellan
by Brendan Constantine
published February 4, 2003

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