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 ...
GIGANTiC MAGAZINE has opened its submission period for its second issue! submit your poetry, prose, essays etc. to us, now! Submission Guidelines: send work to giganticmagazine@gmail.com as an ms word document. if you don't have access to ms word, please copy and paste your work into the body of the email, but beware that your formatting may not transfer. all genres accepted and please specify what genre you're writing in. if you invented this genre, name it. if you are submitting the same piece to other magazines, we'll consider it but let us know if it gets accepted to the other magazine first. include your contact information: name, address, email address and phone number. 15 page maximum for each piece (double or 1.5 spaced) please only send up to five works per submission period. GIGANTiC will be available only in print. there is not yet a closing date set for this submission period. we will post later if we have one. meanwhile, send us your best writing you want t...
June 5, 2010 :: elegy in essay form I found out this morning via Jim Behrle's facebook and then his twitter that David Markson has passed away. "David Markson has died." Behrle doesn't blither. Quick search on the web, and I've got nothing, but this makes sense to me. Markson, a giant of postmodernism-- if you're true to the word-- maintained closer friendships than he courted publicity. His life and work are intertwined, and his memory will live on in those he touched as well as in his works of art. Perhaps I find my method of discovery at his passing ironic considering Markson himself would have never found out about anything the way I did. He would tell me, visiting the poetry and literary non-fiction stacks of Strand Bookstore, how he still used a typewriter to write, wrote things down on notecards when planning his novels, only took calls on his landline and didn't feel he had any need for a cell phone or computer. It wasn't that he was against te...
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