POSTPONED: Launch Party for Revel, a new literary journal from Unbound Edition Press!
Schedule
Tue, 27 Feb, 2024 at 06:00 pm
Location
Buxton Books | Charleston, SC
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PLEASE NOTE: This event has postponed! New date to be announced!Buxton Books is honored to host the launch party for Revel, a new literary journal from Unbound Edition Press! Atsuro Riley - Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, winner of the Arts and Letters Awards in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Revel’s Editor in Chief - will be joining us in the bookstore for this very special celebration.
Revel no. 1, available January 2024, contains over 200 pages of literary excellence:
- A special section considering the poetry of former Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, with essays by Stephanie Burt, Peter Campion, Hailey Leithauser, Amit Majmudar, Ange Mlinko, Natalie Shapero, Willard Spiegelman, A.E. Stallings, and Christian Wiman.
- Terrance Hayes: A Frank Stanford Lyric Speech Act Test with Visions
- Shane McCrae: an excerpt from his memoir Pulling the Chariot of the Sun
- a Joy Williams screed on our environmental Armageddon
- a Hugh Raffles essay on The Black Stone of Djúpalónssandur
- a Bernard Cooper essay on a line from Wallace Stevens
- a story by Lucy Corin
- poems by Cal Bedient, Danielle Chapman, Andrea Cohen,
Kwame Dawes, Tishani Doshi, Forrest Gander, Amy Gerstler,
Linda Gregerson, Terrance Hayes, Brenda Hillman, Devin
Johnston, Hailey Leithauser, Amit Majmudar, Randall Mann,
Ange Mlinko, Jesse Nathan, Stamatis Polenakis (translated
from the Greek by A.E. Stallings), Kay Ryan, Natalie Shapero,
Tom Thompson, and Christian Wiman.
- photographs:
- Susan Unterberg’s Close Ties on mothers and their sons
- Alan Thomas looks at Bolinas
This is a free event, but RSVPs are required. Please email [email protected] to reserve your spot so you can raise a glass with Atsuro and some of his fellow contributors as they welcome Revel into the world!
About Revel:
Revel is a brand-new (all-print) literary journal which is brought out twice a year by upstart independent publisher Unbound Edition Press.
Featuring the best new poetry, fiction, literary essays, criticism, and art, Revel will be available for purchase at Revel Guild independent booksellers and other bookshops; at revel-literary.com and unboundedition.com; a subscription option will be available in 2024.
Atsuro Riley is Revel's Editor in Chief.
About Atsuro Riley:
Atsuro Riley is the author of the poetry collections Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and Romey’s Order (University of Chicago Press, 2010). In 2023, Riley was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and winner of the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Heard-Hoard was the winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America and a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Poetry Award; it was named to “Best Book of The Year” lists by The Boston Globe and Bookworm. Romey’s Order received the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Atsuro Riley lives in San Francisco. He is the editor of Revel, a literary journal.
This is a free event, but RSVPs are required. Please email [email protected] to reserve your spot so you can raise a glass with Atsuro and some of his fellow contributors as they welcome Revel into the world!
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Where is it happening?
Buxton Books, 160 King St, Charleston, SC 29401-2212, United States,Charleston, South CarolinaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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