"They'll Come If We Have an Open Bar.."

Big news of the week: Polaris is officially having a release party on May 11, 2010 at 7:30 pm. It's going to be held in the Fame Center in Ada and the winners of the magazine contests will hopefully be reading their pieces. Other people can read as well if they'd like. Food should be around, although we will not have an open bar ;c) Sorry Fred. Props to Lydia on this for being an organizational guru.

Other cool stuff: Alan, Dr. Cowles, Brian, Andrew, and possibly other people went to the AWP conference. We were one of the few undergraduate journals present and we seemed to get some fairly good feedback from other publications who were there. Minus Alan's freakout that Heathrow airport was going to explode while they were there, the trip seemed to be a lot of fun and went off without a hitch. Way to be Alan, way to be ;c)

Besides that, the group has decided to sent the magazine away to an organization who will provide critiques on the publication which could come in useful for next year. I'm kind of excited to see what they have to say. Hopefully they're good comments. Ha.

And I'll leave you with this song. I discovered it during work today, it's called Suspension by Mae. It's probably my new favorite song-- not that THAT matters very much, but hey here ya go. Just listen, there's really no video because all the music videos wouldn't let me embed it. Peace!

Fred Becomes a Stripper...

First things first: submissions are in! Thanks to everyone who submitted, and this very minute our editors are putting the finishing touches on deciding which pieces will be placed in Polaris. Obviously, only the very best ;c) ha.
We had a great response to our call for submissions. It looks like the e-mailing of posters all over the place, the open mic nights, and the readings really paid off. Fred and Jeff are working on the design right now, and we’re hoping to have a release party in a month or so 
Last meeting, Andrew and Brian ran through a list of what we had accomplished (and not accomplished) over this year, in which I got roasted for not keeping up with this blog, and rightly so, haha. We also discovered that:
1)We did a lot more with publicity this year than we have done in the past
2)Our Polaris t-shirts and chapbooks look and are awesome
3)Somewhere within the course of this year, Fred became a stripper. It’s true. It
was in the minutes from a random meeting this year. Risqué…
Cheers for a great year!
I’m going to leave you all with this video—hopefully you’re a fan of Ok Go. Even if you’re not, this is sweet.
Til next week, peace.

Anatomy of a Fish pt XXIV

Oh this isn't being updated! So much surprises!

We're getting a steady stream of submissions. We're a little light on art submissions though :-(.

So far the submissions we've been getting in all other genres have been really fun to read. Some really interesting voices out there.

We printed posters and are in the process of hanging them up. We also have conducted one open-mic night, and a series of guerilla advertising campaigns. Our next campaign is in development and intended to be our last grand push for submissions before the deadline, which, again, is February 22nd.

above is a picture Fred drew on my Writer's Chronicle today during the meeting. Stoned duck?