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11/29/2006
Elizabeth Bradfield to speak at December Luncheon
Gorgeous, Cheap, and Global: Harnessing the Internet for Publishing and Distribution
Broadsided Press was launched a year ago with the goal of putting art and literature on the streets.Founder Elizabeth Bradfield's background in online community-building as an executive producer with an Internet parenting site led her to a grassroots and serendipitous distribution method: the Vector.Once a month, Broadsided posts a new publication, and volunteers in 24 states, Canada, England and Germany download, print, and post them.Through simple technologies (pdf, RSS feed, email group), a network is born.
Bradfield, speaker at the Dec. 7 APC luncheon, will talk about how Broadsided was created, how it's maintained, and why she's chosen this over the more common blog or literary journal as a mode of publication.Read on for more about Bradfield.
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More about Elizabeth Bradfield
Elizabeth Bradfield's poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Field, the Alaska Quarterly Review and other journals.You can also find her work in anthologies such as Best New Poets 2006.
Also coming out soon… Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry.Though Bradfield lives in Anchorage and works as a naturalist and Web designer.See her work at pelagicdesign.com.She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Breadloaf Writer's conference.Twice, she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.Liz is Web editor of Ice-Floe Press: International Poetry of the Far North.
She's also the founder of Broadsided Press,, an online grassroots effort to revive the literary tradition of the "broadside."