Irving "Irv" Broughton is a publisher

Publishing

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, writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, filmmaker

Film director

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, and teacher

Teacher

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 known for having discovered the talent of poet

Poet

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 Frank Stanford

Frank Stanford

Frank Stanford was a prolific American poet. He is most known for his epic, The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You— a labyrinthine, highly lexical book absent stanzas and punctuation...

. The two met at the Hollins Conference on Creative Writing and Cinema in 1970. Broughton read Stanford's poems there and agreed to publish the poet's first book, The Singing Knives, which was published in 1971 by Broughton's Mill Mountain Press. Broughton published five more of Stanford's books of poetry between 1974 and 1976 on his press and co-published (with Lost Roads

Lost Roads Publishers

Lost Roads is a small press founded in 1976 in Arkansas by poet Frank Stanford. Its stated mission is to publish essential books in contemporary literature. After Stanford's death in 1978, editorship was assumed by poet C. D. Wright, whose book, Room Rented By A Single Woman , had been the press'...

) Stanford's magnum opus

Masterpiece

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, The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You

The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You

The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You is a 15,283-line epic poem by the poet Frank Stanford. First published in 1977 as a 542-page book, the poem is visually characterized by its absence of stanzas and punctuation and is recognized as a complex, unusual work — at once both highly humorous...

, in 1977. Broughton also made a film with/about Stanford titled It Wasn't A Dream, It Was A Flood

It Wasn't A Dream, It Was A Flood

It Wasn't A Dream, It Was A Flood is a 1974 autobiographical, 16mm short film about poet Frank Stanford, made by Stanford and his publisher, Irv Broughton...

, which won one of the Judge's Awards at the 1975 Northwest Film & Video Festival. Furthermore, the two interviewed and filmed writers together, the transcripts later appearing in The Writer’s Mind: Interviews With American Authors, a three-volume set for which Broughton was editor.