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I've been doing social media for the upcoming art/lit/small press/poetry extravaganza PHILALALIA, where Gigantic Sequins will be tabling AND co-hosting an on-site event as well as kicking off the first "official" off-site event of the event at Tattooed Moms along with Philadelphia Review of Books and The Head & the Hand Press.  The on-site events' schedule is on the official PHILALALIA site , and each and every one of them is FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. So please come out to the book fair and make some time to stop by one or more of the great on-site events. I am of course partial to the GS/Apiary reading, looking forward to the Temple Contemporary Publication Studio Presentation and their event Thursday night featuring the Poet Laureate and Youth Poet Laureate of Philly, and how can you go wrong with Eileen Myles Potluck Brunch? You just can't. There's so much great lit-ness happening during the 3-day period of the whole shabang, though, that I wa...

Art Faccia, a website that features articles, reviews, interviews, essays and fiction and other great stuff published two things of interest to fans of Gigantic Sequins... and fans of me! Here's an article I wrote for Art Faccia about poet Christie Ann Reynolds and the Philadelphia Parking Authority . You should probably read it and then post comments about how great it is. If you are familiar with the PPA's wrath or even if you're not, you will enjoy the sense of triumph that the article leaves you with. In addition to publishing that article from me, J.E. Reich posted an "On the Scene" review of the reading Gigantic Sequins did at Word Up, a pop-up bookstore in Washington Heights. Check it out! She 's a great writer, and she does an excellent job detailing the experience of our reading as well as providing background information on the bookstore, GS and our lovely, fantastic, wonderful readers. *** Recently, Gigantic Sequins tabled at the Boog City ...

for each issue of our Gigantic Sequins [formally Gigantic Magazine], we will be reviewing a few books from small presses. if you run a small press, have been published in one, or are a fan of one, let us at Gigantic Sequins [formally Gigantic Magazine] know about it! You can email us at [ giganticmagazine@gmail.com ] for our snailmail address if you would like to send us a copy to increase your chances of us reviewing your book. However, even just by telling us about your press / book / what you find small and delicious will let us know where we should be turning our readerly radars. Thanks everyone! We hope you are looking forward to our April release as much as we are!