2/28/13: May The Swamp Be With You

It’s time for another super-exciting photo wrap-up to celebrate another super-exciting Burning Swamp Reading Series Reading.  On February 28th, Sugar Magnolia was packed to the prehistoric gills with so much awesomeness it was almost impossible to handle.  Seriously.  I mean, look:

People, people who love swamp people …

That’s a lot of love right there, and we thank you for showing it to our readers.  Here’s a little taste of the literary smorgasbord we feasted on that evening*:

Laura Valeri reads from her short story collection, Safe in Your Head, which isn’t exactly about mermaids but is certainly every bit as awesome as mermaids are.  Wait, I take that back: EVEN MORE AWESOME than mermaids are.

Tavidee Hoskins performed a spoken word piece, and it was exactly like what Jimi Hendrix would’ve done if Jimi Hendrix did spoken word, except, thankfully, Tavidee didn’t set anything on fire — EXCEPT MINDS.

 

Efad Huq read from a story about ghosts and women and awesome and rice balls and awesome.

It’s no mystery that Tina Whittle is amazing, and she proved it by reading from a chapter of Blood, Ash, and Bone, which inspired me both to purchase Blood, Ash, and Bone immediately and to wish I knew a martial art, or all the martial arts.

Jared Yates Sexton read the rules for what to do on the occasion of a Wendigo attack.

 

Emma Bolden was just hanging out.

Stay tuned for information about our March 28th reading.  Spoiler Alert: it’s going to be AWESOME.

* I’m trying a new thing where I see how many awkward metaphors I can awkwardly mix in one entry.  It’s like making Funfetti cupcakes with dynamite instead of sprinkles.  See?  Totally awkward.

Introducing: Luca Inghilleri

Listen: this whole January reading thing? It’s exciting.  It’s so exciting I can’t stop thinking or talking about it, and neither can the Swamp People.  I mean, it just looks like there’s a lot of bubbles in the swamp, but really it’s their swampy enthusiasm.  Because this is so exciting, I’m posting two — yes, two — reader profiles today.  The fourth reader on the bill for tomorrow night’s reading (8 pm! Sugar Magnolia! Pizza! Pastries! Poetry!) is the funny, football-loving, fellow-Southern-as-in-the-South-of-the-US-of-A Italian, Luca Inghilleri.  Let’s take a look at this awesomeness, shall we?

A Little About Luca Inghilleri

This is a picture of Luca Inghilleri near a body of water, in which he may or may not be communing with the merpeople who may or may not be living in said body of water.

Luca Inghilleri is a senior English major with a Writing minor at Georgia Southern University. This Riverside Military Academy graduate hails from an Italian family in Roswell, Georgia, he enjoys literature, sports (especially football), writing, music, philosophy, politics, cooking, eating and spending time with friends and family. He plans to pursue a career in teaching or law, but will eventually wind up in politics. Some of his literary heroes include Joseph Conrad, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, Milton, Orson Scott Card, Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Tim O’Brien, Ken Kesey and Jane Austen. An intelligent and outgoing person, he enjoys making people laugh and helping others.

 Luca’s Answers to Our Swamp Survey:

1. What’s your favorite cryptozoology creature?

I would have to say that aside from Aliens, the most fascinating cryptozoological search is for the elusive Merpeople, who reside somewhere at the bottom of deep sea trenches.

2. Do you believe in Swamp Primates?

I certainly believe in Swamp Primates. My eyes may have been playing tricks on me, but I thought I spied one on the roof of the Henderson Library on one eerily foggy night.

3. What do you think we should do about all of the recent Swamp Primate attacks?

In my opinion, the most logical solution to the Swamp Primate attacks would be to attempt to establish peaceful contact by way of offering food, medical supplies and education. So really anything the U.S. Government wouldn’t do to solve the problem.