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Do you know what I love about my generation? How easy digital communication makes everything. I've been in touch with Veronica Liu, the woman who's set up Word Up , the pop-up bookstore in Washington Heights, NYC, since I found out about the pop-up store via Karen Lillis's wonderful "Small Press Librarian" blog , and she is not only sweet, but excited about what she's doing and what others are doing. She is the managing editor for Seven Stories Press, and as far as I can tell, she knows what she's doing. This is what makes being an editor so thrilling to me. She has been fast to respond to my emails, informative when need be and possesses a level of small excitement that can go undetected via email, but I can sense it. See a fraction of our email exchange below, from today. She had asked me to send copies of the 2.2 issue asap, in order that they could promote the reading by displaying them. I had sent them on Friday, and I wasn't sure when they'd...

Gigantic Sequins 2.2 came out today. I have no human children, but I do have literary arts journal babies. Today, I picked up my fourth baby from Perfect Printing in Moorestown, NJ, early, before the heat wave that began around noon had set in the area. It was 85 degrees and rising as I pulled up, parked, paid and held the door for the nice man who lugged the four boxes from the company's lobby where they were waiting for me. Each of the boxes has the image of the cover plastered on it, and I have opened one of them, slit the plastic and flipped through one. I got a "proof" copy, which is exactly the same, but splitting the plastic and flipping through and breathing the books, still warm from being out in my car while I worked today, well, that's magical. We sent away for the inserts today and they should be in by early next week, and then we will begin shipping out our 2.2 issue to all of our friends, contributors and purchasers. Gigantic Sequins 2.2 was born Wednes...

the WELCOME SUMMER RAFFLE is here! brought to you by Gigantic Sequins! We have TEN prize packages-- that's right, TEN-- that each include between 2-4 prizes. Here's what you can win: SIGNED BOOKS : Tea by D.A. Powell, The Ticking is the Bomb by Nick Flynn & Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamist by Matthew Zapruder, Cocktails by D.A. Powell & Lunch by D.A. Powell, Like a Sea by Sam Amadon HARDCOVER BOOKS: Landing Light by Don Paterson, Hart Crane, a life by Clive Fisher, The Bigger World by Nicole Kocot, Destroyer and Preserver by Matthew Rohrer & I <3 Your Fate by Anthony McCann PAPERBACK BOOKS: Glass City by John Grochalski, Revisions Of by Goodloe Byron ART: pins handcrafted by Savannah Schroll Guz & animal sculptures made by Darla Jackson CDs: blanketfort records Sampler 1.1, Bright Day by Emily Rodgers, VDMA by VDMA, Glenrose by Brendan Little VINYL: Emily Easterly/J Seger split 45''...

Gigantic Sequins 2.2 features... ART by Jennifer Maidment, Joshua Gabriel & Josean Rivera POETRY by Adam Atkinson, James Wagner, Leigh Phillips, Helen Vitoria, Joseph Calavenna, Jim Daniels, Matthew Siegel, Rich Ives, Natasha Kessler, James Caroline and Matthew Whitley FICTION & MICRO FICTION by LaTanya McQueen, Len Kutz, Michelle Cheever, Craig Bernier and Yelena Valer'evna Moskovich Order your issue today! $8.50 - GS 2.2 $15.00 - GS 2.2 + GS 2.1 $20.00 - GS 2.2 + all back issues

Cassie M. of the Kickstarter Blog wrote up our Gigantic Sequins fundraiser! This is really exciting to me. She calls us "ambitious and, frankly, adorable." Thanks, Cassie! As of March 21st, our project is 48% funded-- we still need your help to meet our goal of $500.00, though, by March 17th. Please donate today , or if you can't afford it: tell your friends!

The editors of Gigantic Sequins, Sophie Klahr, Zach Yontz and I, have been working hard to put together our first ever Kickstarter fundraiser. It just went live tonight, giving us 29 days and some amount of hours, now, to raise the $500 we hope to raise. This money will help us commit to putting out our 2.2 issue on time. Please, please, please, please, please help us meet our $500 goal! The way Kickstarter works is that you only get your funding if you meet your goal-- We really hope that we can successfully launch our project on time by raising this money! You can donate $5-$500--- every little amount helps! We hope that you find it in you to give whatever you can today! Tell all of your friends! Tell all of your friends' friends! Spread the word so that we can bring you THE BEST poetry, prose and art in our unique journal. We need to raise $500 by 4/17/11. We know that you can help make this happen. Thanks.

Well, I still haven't been able to get together all of the "names" missing from my last post, and I fear it will be too late if I ever get the motivation to do so-- not because I am, generally, a lazy person, but because I have the flu, or something flu-like, that is a persistent drainer of all of my energy and ability to concentrate. This being said, the last day of AWP, Saturday, was a success for me. I finally did an extensive stroll through the bookfair, I bought a book, I promised I would buy other books, I picked up a million flyers, and I both talked to and took photos of some fabulous people. All of my AWP photos can be found on my facebook page in an album called AWP 2011 DC: capitol letters . That's the public link, so you should be able to access it there. After dinner, we went to the Black Squirrel for the Megareading, of which we missed most, but got to hear the lovely Christie Ann Reynolds and the fabulous Matt Hart (who killed it.) We proceeded to Cheif...