Spring Break
Local magazine's new edition to launch tonight
Univ. magazine's latest edition anticipated
JENNIFER JACKSON
Issue date: 10/22/07 Section: Variety
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For something to do other than watch Monday night football, locals will come together tonight for the celebration of the newest issue of The Georgia Review.
The magazine, having awarded recipients with the 2007 National Magazine Award in essays, will be celebrating the release of its fall issue at the Athens-Clarke Country Library.
Where: Athens-Clarke County Library
Cost: Free
More Information: Call (706) 613-3650.The featured reader is Jeremy Collins, a former University student who will read from his work "Shadow Boxing."
"In his piece, Collins relates his struggles with writing to his admiration for Rocky (the movie character played by Sylvester Stallone)," said Kristen Iskandrian, the assistant to the editors of magazine. "This is his first publication - I think there's something in it for everyone."
The fall 2007 issue of The Georgia Review also includes "Eye Level in Iraq," a portfolio of photographs from the war in Iraq that covers 24-pages and has accompanying essays by the photographers, Thorne Anderson and Kael Alford.
In this issue are fiction by Georgia's Janisse Ray and Jack Driscoll, essays by Barbara C. Mallonee and Laura Sewell Matter, a play by David Wagoner and many poems and reviews.
"I've been to a reading before, and it was much more interesting than I thought it would be," said Courtney Burnett, a freshman from Savannah. "It adds sentimental value to the work when you see the author read it themselves."
Burnett just attended the Adrienne Rich poetry reading and said she is interested in going to another one.
"Creative writing broadens your perspective - it makes you look at the world differently," Burnett said. "It makes you more cultured and intellectual. It gives you a whole new imaginative knowledge."
The award-winning publication has been published quarterly at the University since 1947. Also among its honors is a Governor's Award in Humanities in 2007.
Copies of the new issue will be available for sale tonight, and The Georgia Review staff members will be there to talk about the magazine.
"I think that many students are accustomed to thinking about literature as something that has already 'happened,' or as something to be grappled with privately," Iskandrian said.
Iskandrian is working on a doctorate in creative writing and English. Her work has appeared in "Action Yes," "Spork," "Pindeldyboz" and "Alice Blue Review."
"Readings are about community - they bring us out of our little corners and give us the opportunity to listen, to let the words and the spirit of the thing wash over us and to remind us that literature is happening right now," Iskandrian said.
The magazine, having awarded recipients with the 2007 National Magazine Award in essays, will be celebrating the release of its fall issue at the Athens-Clarke Country Library.
THE GEORGIA REVIEW
When: 7 tonightWhere: Athens-Clarke County Library
Cost: Free
More Information: Call (706) 613-3650.
"In his piece, Collins relates his struggles with writing to his admiration for Rocky (the movie character played by Sylvester Stallone)," said Kristen Iskandrian, the assistant to the editors of magazine. "This is his first publication - I think there's something in it for everyone."
The fall 2007 issue of The Georgia Review also includes "Eye Level in Iraq," a portfolio of photographs from the war in Iraq that covers 24-pages and has accompanying essays by the photographers, Thorne Anderson and Kael Alford.
In this issue are fiction by Georgia's Janisse Ray and Jack Driscoll, essays by Barbara C. Mallonee and Laura Sewell Matter, a play by David Wagoner and many poems and reviews.
"I've been to a reading before, and it was much more interesting than I thought it would be," said Courtney Burnett, a freshman from Savannah. "It adds sentimental value to the work when you see the author read it themselves."
Burnett just attended the Adrienne Rich poetry reading and said she is interested in going to another one.
"Creative writing broadens your perspective - it makes you look at the world differently," Burnett said. "It makes you more cultured and intellectual. It gives you a whole new imaginative knowledge."
The award-winning publication has been published quarterly at the University since 1947. Also among its honors is a Governor's Award in Humanities in 2007.
Copies of the new issue will be available for sale tonight, and The Georgia Review staff members will be there to talk about the magazine.
"I think that many students are accustomed to thinking about literature as something that has already 'happened,' or as something to be grappled with privately," Iskandrian said.
Iskandrian is working on a doctorate in creative writing and English. Her work has appeared in "Action Yes," "Spork," "Pindeldyboz" and "Alice Blue Review."
"Readings are about community - they bring us out of our little corners and give us the opportunity to listen, to let the words and the spirit of the thing wash over us and to remind us that literature is happening right now," Iskandrian said.
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