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The Southern Review Welcomes its Newest Resident Scholar
The editors and staff are proud to announce that Frank Giampietro has been appointed as the 2010–2012 Southern Review Resident Scholar.
Frank Giampietro's book Begin Anywhere was published by Alice James Books in 2008. He is creator of the web poetry projects La Fovea and Poems by Heart. His work has appeared in 32 Poems, Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, FENCE, and Poetry Daily. Awards for his writing include a Florida Book Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Frank Giampietro holds an MFA from Vermont College and an MA from Washington College. He earned his PhD in English from Florida State University’s creative writing program this summer.
Frank joined The Southern Review staff in August 2010. He will work 20 hours a week with The Southern Review, teach one creative writing class for the LSU English Department per semester, and commit the rest of his time to his writing life.
Please join us in welcoming Frank Giampietro!
Now accepting submissions for a special feature on Americana!
Dioramas, time capsules, ticket stubs, bingo halls, old motels, station wagons, miniature villages,
carousels, reenactments, corn dogs, corn liquor, drive-thru trees, ice cream trucks, cigarette
machines, alien sightings, hobo names, mermaid parades, rotary phones, theater marquee,
lawn parties, circus towns, hog prizes, RVs, no vacancy, sideshows, rodeos, Appalachian,
Big Bear, Broken Top, Blue Ridge, Mount Bachelor, Grand Teton, Camel’s Hump, Devil’s
Thumb, Horsetooth, Half Dome, US 1, Route 66, I-95, Going-to-the-Sun, Sky Island,
Overseas, Mississippi,
Journey Through Hallowed Land, Rio Grande, Gowanus Canal,
Niagara Falls, Chattahoochee, Great Lakes, Tug Fork, Allegheny, Elk Neck, Grand Staircase,
Death Valley, Heart of Dixie, Tex Mex, Westward Ho, Rust Belt, Dust Bowl, Dude Ranch,
Old South, Mother Lode, crossroads, Honey Lands, bluegrass,
burlesque, alt country,
old timey, Americana.
We are looking for the essays, stories and poems that articulate the sateen heart beating in
stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. We want to publish work that takes on the enchanted
and rhinestoned, the love canals, tourist traps and old manufacturing towns—wherever you find
the embroidery and the embellishments that make up the borders and roadside attractions of
our wild Americana map.
We’re currently accepting submissions for a special feature about Americana to be published in
the Spring 2011 issue. Please send your previously unpublished poems, stories, and essays
by October 1, 2010.
The Southern Review Americana Feature
Attn. Jen McClanaghan
Old President’s House
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Celebrate with poet David Kirby! *UPDATED!*
The House on Kirby St.
On Friday, April 23, Baton Rouge native and world-renowned poet David Kirby brought down
the house! If we could do it again this weekend, just to hear him read “The Search for Baby
Combover” and “Talking About Movies with Jesus,” we would. Not to mention his new poem
about why he doesn’t drink before readings, which you can find in our fall issue!
As always, we are grateful to the many people who made this evening such a success!
Click here to see photos of the event.
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