It's almost that time again: the AWP Conference will be taking place next week, from Wednesday, February 11 through Saturday, February 14 in Chicago "First We Had Barack Obama, and Soon We Hope We'll Have the Olympics" Illinois. Who's going? Are you excited? What are you most excited about?
The Book Fair is usually my personal favorite--all those amazing small presses and pretty magazines. But I this year, I'm also really looking forward to the off-site events. This may change when I'm actually *at* said events, since often they creep well past their allotted times and are hard to hear and get overly crowded and uncomfortably hot and so on. But have you seen this year's list of off-site stuff? It's enormous, and so potentially good that you practically don't even need the conference itself. But that's probably not right--you couldn't have the off-site readings without the conference, exactly. And maybe some people are really psyched about the panels?
What are your favorite parts of AWP, if you go? And if you don't go, why not? And either way, have you seen that Facebook application that allows you to give Crappy AWP Gifts to your friends?
February 2, 2009
AWP Preview (AWPreview?)
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My favorite is probably the bookfair too--getting to check out all the presses and mags, catching up with people, etc. This is my 4th AWP and usually so much of my time is spent at the bookfair, behind a table (or tables, as was the case last year), I don't usually make it to too many panels, though I am planning to make at least a few this year. The off-site list does look great, too! That's kind of the challenge of AWP--so much interesting sounding stuff and just a few days. Sleep deprivation, here I come!
My favorite parts are the Rose Metal Press table (#441) and the Split This Rock table (#309 at the Boookfair:
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