December 2011
12 posts
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GUEST POST: Zack Schuster liveblogs the Beachies.
Zack Schuster liveblogged the Beachy awards. Zack is the author of Trackback, reviewed here by Beach Sloth. We like Zack. Check him out on Twitter!
editor’s note: I do not live in Ohio
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9:32 - Best Alt Lit Novel just got announced, so we should be moving into the Beachies soon I guess.
9:33 - Aww, he was about to announce it, too, then I guess someone got called a jerk. DAMN.
9:34...
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LiveBlogging the Alt Lit Gossip Awards
all times are in CST and stuff
6:00- One hour until the awards, I think. About to maybe make coffee. Just bought a shirt off Big Cartel. Hope I converted time right in my head and it is an hour until the event begins.
6:20- Sick-ass Tinychat, featuring lots of penis drawings on whiteboard. Sweet.
6:52- THE AWARDS ARE ABOUT TO START.
7:01- Steve is dancing to Skrillex. Sweet.
7:04- Boost my...
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INTERVIEW: SHAUN GANNON
Perhaps more than any other person, Shaun Gannon can truly say: I AM SHAUN GANNON. He did as much to great effect in a boisterous poem entitled…I AM SHAUN GANNON. He also co-founded letpeoplepoems.com, an open site for online poetry submissions. Good luck finding his name anywhere on the site, though: as he insists, “we are explicitly not editors, we are facilitators.” Banango interviewed Shaun...
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'Truth' in Poetry
I read some comments on a review of Spencer Madsen’s book ‘a million bears’ and it led me to think about the connection between the ‘truth’ and the actual words on the page of a poem.
Here is the comment I felt strongly negatively about:
I went to highschool with this idiot, and I remember he had about only one girlfriend. Now it’s a bit hard for me to...
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Banango Interviews: JDA Winslow
JDA Winslow is a writer from England. He tweets here. He blogs here. Justin recently sent him some questions about writing and other things. They also had some IM conversations. Justin has attempted to edit these things together into a coherent conversation with JDA.
Justin Carter: Your web presence, specifically your twitter presence, seems to be fairly large. How do you keep up with this?
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Beach Sloth: My first guest post: Banango Lit →
Glad Banango supports positive online anonymity. After reading my post and feeling all kinds of wonderful, I thought to myself: maybe I can soar, through that open online submission door.
Beach Sloth writes about his recent Banango guest post over on his blog.
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GUEST POST: 160 Words on Four Webjournals by Matt...
Editor’s Note: Banango is looking for guest posters. Preferably ones that are cool. Are you cool? Email us. This is a guest piece by Matt Margo. Matt edits Cormac McCarthy’s Dead Typewriter and we interviewed him recently. We hope you learn lots of things from Matt Margo.
‘shallow’ – edited by Zachary Whalen Recommended Reading: four poems by Marshall Mallicoat Although ...
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Interview w/ Chad Redden, Mayor of NAP
I interviewed Chad Redden, author of The Lesson of Furniture (The Red Ceilings Press, 2011) and Thursday (Plain Wrap Press, 2012), Mayor of NAP Mag, my new sensei, and all-around good dude. Here’s what he had to say. Who are you? Always the hardest question first. Some dude. Get back to me on that question. How long have you been a writer or person who writes or whatever you’re...
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GUEST POST: A Review about Reviewing by Beach...
Banango Lit is looking for talented and interesting guest posters. Not like the kind you put on a wall. If you are talented and interesting and not a wall hanging, email us at banangolit (at) gmail (dot) com. One of our very first guest posts is provided by the inimitable Beach Sloth. At Banango, we’re all big fans of this sloth’s reviews of music and literature. Check out his post on...
Submissions for NAP
NAP is accepting submissions again. Justin and Diana both are part of NAP (although Diana has a much larger, important role). Consider submitting to NAP. It would be good for you.
chadasaurusrex:
NAP is open for submissions again. Print chapbook submissions will close fast. Just saying. I’d like more dudettes to submit and such.
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REVIEW: Ambient Florida Position by Josh Spilker
What better way to celebrate Banango’s entrance into the Big Blog Leagues (check out our new URL!) than with a long-overdue review of “Ambient Florida Position,” a novella by Josh Spilker. The protagonist of the story is 26-year-old Wallace, recently out of a job. Wallace heads to interview after inane interview in a wetsuit. He moves in with his Uncle Ander, who’s...
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Literary Magazine Review: ILK Issue 1, Part 1
ILK is an online journal edited by Caroline Crew and Chris Emslie. The first issue just came out. I am going to discuss a few pieces from that issue right now instead of doing homework and finishing my MFA applications because the first issue is very good.
Madison Langston has three poems in this issue. These poems are ‘cute’ in some ways, ‘disturbing’ in other ways, but...