PSU @ AWP

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A good many of us traveled to D.C. at the beginning of the month for the  Crazy Writers Everywhere AWP Conference, and here, some members of our community share their conference highlights:



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I loved hearing---- from editors and publishers arrayed around the book fair---- about their productive, professional conversations with students in the 2011 book reviewing grad seminar. At booths and tables, editors praised the students' engagement, enthusiasm and courtesy. I heard of many books offered and contacts made, proving that the grad students generated a lot of goodwill.  I felt proud that Penn State students, by seeking to showcase the work of others, demonstrated a generous form of literary citizenship.--Robin Becker, Professor of English

My favorite thing about AWP was just how nice everyone was: people at the book fair, the panelists I talked to, etc.  The best panel I went to was the one featuring our very own Elizabeth Kadetsky and Julia Spicher Kasdorf; it was a diverse panel, but all of the panelists were well-prepared, humble, and interesting.---Emily Anderson, MFA candidate

 

My favorite moment occurred when I was giving a reading in an Irish Pub down the street from the conference hotel. Just as I was introducing a poem with a reference to, ummm, male virility (specifically, a "dangling preposition"), an ad for the erectile dysfunction drug order cialis was playing on the bar's jumbo TV screen.--Erin Murphy, Associate Professor of English, Penn State Altoona





One of my favorite quotes from AWP came from the panel, "Beyond Blackout and Whiteache: Poets Rewriting Race."  Jake Adam York (co-editor of Copper Nickel) said you have to replicate, in the imagination of the poem, the power dynamic of what started the poem.--Sarah Blake Shoenholtz, MFA candidate



AWP Billboard moment: Making the rounds at the Book Fair with classmates from Prof. Becker's book review class: chatting with editors; soliciting review copies from publishers; exchanging knowing nods across the floor with classmates. We Came, We Panel-d, We Triumphed.--Evan McGarvey, MFA candidate



Five years." "Seven years." "Eight years." At a panel comprised of first time authors discussing the "Nitty-Gritty of Publishing," novelists, short story writers, essayists, and one poet declared how long they spent writing their first books. Almost none of them completed their books within the tidy time-frame of a two or three year MFA program. I smiled, relieved. This panel confirmed my suspicion that a thesis proves to be one thing, while a first book might be something else. --Rachel Bara, MFA candidate





I loved the chance to reconnect with my former teachers and fellow MFA alums from Penn State.--Rita Ciresi, MFA Alumna







Hope to freeze see you in Chicago, 2012!





 

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1)BIOCIL order cialis - HYPERTENSION

2)BONACT cialis - ASTHIGATHA VATAM

3)CALCITON TABLETS - CALCIUM DEFICIENCY

4)INFLARIL TABLETS - AMAVATHAM

5)MEMODEV TABLETS - MEMORY BOOSTER

6)PILOHERB TABLETS - PILES

7)SLIMON TABLETS - OBESITY

8)TERMONEEM TABLETS - SKIN AILMENT

9)UROCARE TABLETS - URINARY PROBLEM