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S U B M I S S I O N S :: O P E N Just a reminder to all you Gigantic Sequins faithfuls that our submission period for our Spring 2010 issue is open! We've already gotten a large amount of submissions, so please be sure to send us your BEST work! Or, if you are feeling extra spicy, send us something that will totally stand out: perhaps another genre? an essay, a comic, a visual poem. DO IT. send all submissions to: [ giganticsequins@gmail.com ] :: check out our official website for more specific guidelines! ( big ups to daniel christensen for designing this rad flyer. )

Hey New York, busy this week? We are... join us! Tonight, 9/16/09 11pm: Danny Malone will play @ The Living Room , LES Tomorrow, 9/17/09 all day: Happy Birthday to Daniel Christensen and Anna Levy! Friday, 9/18/09 all day: Happy Birthday to Laura Regan ! 8pm: Field 309, three short plays @ Dixon Place , LES 9pm: GunFight ! performs @ Bushwick Music Studios , Brooklyn Saturday, 9/19/09 8pm: if you missed Field 309, catch it today! Dixon Place, LES 9pm: catch Emily Easterly sings to you @ The Living Room, LES ...not to mention various birthday and other sorts of shenanigans. hizzah!

I adventured into a classic this past month, the first modern novel. My travels were to discover why it is called this precisely and also if it was worthy of the title. I had little time to read anything else besides a spattering of poetry and also selections from literary magazines I read (usually while waiting for my FarmVille Farm to load...) I read an excellent essay in Agni 69, "Still, Sky, Girl, and Marriage" by Emily C. Watson. Its evaluation of artwork let me into the brain of someone creative, smart, interesting and also a fantastic writer. I was quite pleased to read something brilliant and kept reading even after whatever page I was waiting to load loaded. As for the books I completed, there are two. Read forth. books read August Poemland by Chelsey Minnis I must, unfortunately, refrain from saying too much about this interesting book of poetry published by Wave Books because I will be reviewing it in the upcoming issue 1.2 of Gigantic Sequins. I would be...

Help out another literary magazine! Absinthe Literary Review had their URL stolen by money-seeking haters. The following is copied and pasted from their new website: http://absintheliteraryreview.com/ "GENTLE ALR READERS: PLEASE READ: Due to aggressive spam filters on a new email server, our original decade-owned URL, absinthe-literary-review.com, lapsed during our hiatus and was snatched up by cybersquatters, Maxory LLC, an off-shore St-Kitts / Nevis-based LLC that deals exclusively in this kind of questionable business. They are now trying to sell books online using our trademark, but be assured: ALR is no longer associated with our former URL nor with this shady ghost corporation. They are also attempting to auction the site, which has moved them into the legal definition of bad faith in cybersquatting under the ACPA. We're asking for your help in this situation. HOW CAN YOU HELP? 1. While we proceed with expensive and lengthy litigation, please help us diminish the tarn...

My summer has been fast and busy. I didn't get much reading done in June due to my two week trip to Egypt, so I decided to combine June and July. books read: June & July The Pyramids: Great Mysteries of Archeology by M.R. Luberto Lots of pictures and short paragraphs and information from all over the historical, religious and archeological perspectives and opinions about the facts and fictions and mysteries of the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World left standing. The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolaño Good as a companion piece to his other books, but perhaps they all work together like that anyway. Bolaño believed more in the genre of poetry than in the genre of fiction, yet his fiction leaves a longer impression than his poetry. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The original before Disney got their hands on it version of the little wooden puppet. The original Pinocchio is a little brat who by the end deserves to be a real boy, but much like St. Au...

ME: Looking for some amazing thing to do Friday the 17th ? YOU: Well, in fact, and thank you for asking, I AM looking for only amazing things to do Friday the 17th . ME: Well, you are lucky that you know me, then. YOU: You know of something amazing? ME: Do I ever. YOU: Do tell. ME: Have you ever heard of THE SUPERMACHINE POETRY SERIES?! YOU: I want to! ME: Well, here is your chance! On Friday the 17th THE SUPERMACHINE (OF) POETRY SERIES will be presenting AN EVENING OF DRAMATIC, COMEDIC, AND QUESTIONABLE STAGED READINGS! YOU: That sounds great! Will it be featuring work by Theresa and Dale Buchheister, Sarah Graalman, Jerrod Bogard, Shonni Enelow, Dylan Jackson and Lori Payne? ME: Yes! YOU: Is it free! ME: But of course! YOU: Where the hell is this amazing thing!? ME: THE OUTPOST LOUNGE! In Brooklyn! YOU: What time? ME: 8 PM! YOU: Can I get more info? ME: Yes! Check out www.outpostlounge.com or http://supermachinepoetry. blogspot.com ! YOU: ...

TOMORROW! Friday! June 12! 8pm! Come one! Come all! The Supermachine Reading series in conjunction Gigantic Sequins presents... Ben Fama! Molly Finkelstein! Jeff Laughlin! & Kimberly Ann Southwick! Reading poems. In your face. At Outpost Lounge -- 1014 Fulton St. @ Grand and Classon. Take the C train to the Franklin Ave. stop OR the G train to the Clinton-Washington stop. TOTALLY FREE!!!!! (and thank you to Ben Fama for the poster image above)