Only now, weeks after the explosively awesome return of The Burning Swamp Reading Series, has the swamp-gas-smoke cleared enough for me to see my computer screen and post photographic evidence of said explosively awesome event.
And said event was so explosively awesome that I must begin this with a warning: please be careful with these photographs. Their pure incredible may melt the very screen of your computer into a stream of diodes and plastic and glass-returned-to-sand (or whatever computer screens may actually be made of, because I don’t really know), and in the process, they may burn your retinas with the power of ten thousand white hotly awesome suns.
You have been warned.
And if you’re interested in witnessing this awesomeness yourself, you’ll have the chance in the next few weeks, with the February installment of the Series. Keep your eyes open for announcements — just make sure that they’re open behind protective eye-wear.
First, a swamp miracle! I was able to recover the photographs my camera kept for itself last time around. Here’s a picture of Gerrard Davis, in the midst of filling the world with joy:
The posting of this may be belated, but that doesn’t make it any less incredible.
And now, the photos from January’s reading. Sunglasses on.
Benjamin Drevlow starts off the awesome with a now-legendary reading of a story about an ER visit. I’d give more details but it would be physically dangerous to post so much awesome on this page.
Luca Inghilleri has one thing to say to you, and that is that this reading was AWESOME.
Here’s a picture of the audience. You, audience? You were the bestest ever.
Hannah Frank reads a heart-warming essay (and rends tears from the normally-stone-cold heart of Professor Bolden).
Our noble co-founder Jared Yates Sexton breaks out the jazz hands in celebration of this reading.
Evin Hughes reads a short story about the earth shaking so amazing that it shook the very earth itself.
Christina Olson rocks the hiz-ouse with her awesometacular poems, two of which can be found here (you’re going to want to follow that link. I mean it. I’ll wait.)
(Are you back? Good. Because now your life is changed, and for the AWESOMER.)
Emma Bolden listens carefully, if slowly, to the amazingness around her.
(Okay, actually, that’s not really a picture of me, it’s just a picture that looks a lot, lot, LOT like me. I’m always on the other side of the camera, so this eerily similar photograph is as close as I can get.)
The Burning Swamp Reading Series 