On Saturday I'm attending the Urbana Sweetcorn Festival. Good thing I like corn. Good thing I really like corn.
Eat your heart out New Yorkers!
The festival also features a book market with local and university presses. Jon Tribble and Alison Joseph are going to be there to promote the Crab Orchard Prize books. In the evening a group of us will be going out to dinner with them. I've never met them, but I've only heard good things about them.
Would it be tacky to show them my poetry collection over dinner? Just kidding. Really.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
3 comments:
Good mag, great press. (Any press smart enough to publish Greg Pape would get my manuscript. Oh yeah! Did that: Pitt Poetry Series.) Buena gente, so I hear. Bring a copy with you, with SASE. Be yourself. "It just so happens, I have an extra copy right here, I even have an extra SASE. jajaja...". Worked for Jayne Anne Phillips, but, sorry, she's cuter than you & speaking heterosexual.
Jei, ese, you'll have the Corn Goddess dancing in your corner. Fíjate.
When the temperature's right, the serpent strikes. Or appears, like a sign of the New World. Just have it with you. (Heck, I carried mine around for years. Not to give to any one, just to carry & watch sleep like a newborn.)
Y muy buena suerte como siempre.
P.S. Why can't I be normal like your sister-in-law????! "La Soltera," indeed. Beautiful pictures. Would have loved the dancing. You like Selena? I've been working on my performative Selena poem since she died. Cheers.
Jon and Allison are so nice. You'll adore them, and vice versa. Please tell them hi for me and send them big love from South Dakota?
D'oh! Just realized today is Saturday. Feh.
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