The Gigantic Sequins Editors' blog is participating in the Book of Kells 2010 National Poetry Month Poetry Book Giveaway this upcoming April. Guidelines, if you are a blogger and would like to participate, can be found here . And here is what Gigantic Sequins is giving away --- A copy of our editor-in-chief's one and only poetry chapbook, unstill and, also, a copy of Refusing Heaven by the great Jack Gilbert. All you have to do is, at some point between NOW and APRIL 30th, you must comment on THIS blogpost. By commenting, you've signed up for this giveaway--- yes, giveaway. Your name will be entered into a hat, and two random winners will receive either unstill or Refusing Heaven . Meanwhile, keep up with this blog during the month of April-- if you can. We will be celebrating National Poetry month, announcing release event dates and writing about random and all things literary, per usual. [ I will replace this line of text with a picture of each of the books being given ...
So this is a riff on a Marcus Greil column I loved when it was in The Believer, and it's apparently been other places too. It's sort of, in my version, a "cultural/art experiences" top ten? I had notes for one last year, but sadly never wound up posting it! So here it goes for 2019. Sorry, 12/31, for excluding you from the possibility of being included in this, in case I have an amazing cultural/art experience tomorrow. 10. PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF LAFAYETTE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING , MAY 2019 :: I am definitely a bit biased here, but Geoff did a lot of great work this year, and it was really amazing to hear him talk as a professional in front of a group of interested people about what he was doing on the Roy House on campus. I know that he knows a lot, but the nitty gritty details of it aren't often something we discuss, so hearing him talk about it in a setting like this made me so proud. 9. EAGLES VICTORY @ THE CHICAGO AIRPORT, JANUARY 2019 :: This is a w...
Just a reminder that these aren't reviews, but... more like notes on the books that I feel worth sharing, some more substantial, some more review-y, some more helpful, some more personal, etc. I thought I read more this month--and I really did, but not in terms of "full books." I read a lot for a paper I wrote on Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Rowson for this year's ALA in SF, and I read a lot for my dissertation, but I only finished a few books, it seems. Je Suis L'Autre: Essays and Interrogations by Kristina Marie Darling I was excited about this book because of the way it is marketed, as a sort of lyric-criticism. I liked some essays more than others, though I found some of the ways it described the works being commented on too vague, the sort of criticism that I fear slapping a broader hybrid label on texts might encourage. This being said, I find it difficult to read about a text I myself have never read but believe the right critic will make an essay comp...
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