Earth Fair Pics

Our Earth Fair experience was a great one. We met lots of potential readers and contributors, handed out over 400 Perigee fliers, along with hundreds of magnets, postcards, and pens.

We would like to extend our thanks to all who came and participated in the Earth Fair. The turnout was amazing, and the conversations we had with people from all walks of life infused us with renewed hope for humanity and for the health of our global community.

Special thanks are due to Jim Miller (Cityworks Press) and Lance Newman (Haymarket Books), with whom we shared our booth.

Here are a few pictures from the event yesterday:

Perigee Booth at Earth Day Fair!

Please join us in supporting Earth Day this weekend. These days, perhaps more than ever before, it is imperative that we spread the message of conservation and environmental responsibility.

Perigee is participating in San Diego's Earth Day Fair, this Sunday the 22nd, in Balboa Park. Those of you who live in the San Diego area are invited to come out and meet the editors, talk about the arts, pick up some free Perigee pens, postcards, or magnets, and support the health of Planet Earth. We are sharing a booth with Haymarket Books and Cityworks Press in front of the Museum of Art (click here for a detailed map). The fair runs from 9 AM to 5 PM.

All of the carbon we use to attend and participate in the Earth Day fair will be offset through our participation with Carbonfund.org.

We hope to see you this Sunday, in mutual support of our planet.

Hokies

As some of you may know, Perigee's founding editor attended Virginia Tech in 1996, 1997, and 1998—living in West Ambler Johnston dormitory, where Monday's shooting began.

A close friend (Jim Keane, who currently attends Virginia Tech) took these shots yesterday:








Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Hokie Nation, and the Blacksburg community as a whole. We hope our readers will join us in wearing orange and maroon this Friday, April 20th, in memory of those who lost their lives.

(Photographs: ©2007 Jim Keane)

Issue 16 Contributors

The 16th issue of Perigee (our 4th anniversary issue) is chock full of new poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. This special double-sized issue will include the following contributors, along with the winning poems from our popular Poetry Contest, as judged by poet Marvin Bell!

The special commemorative edition of Perigee is laced with new goodies, including a note from the founding editor on Perigee's first four years—and what's to come. The issue will be released Sunday, April 15th.

Jeffrey Alfier, "Breaking the Colts," "Cloud Banks North of Aqua Prieta," "How the Bartender Saves Us," and "Leaving Cipriano Pass"
Katherine Barnes, "Possession"
F. J. Bergmann, "Love in the Ruins" (3rd Place Winner)
Dallas Boggs, "Brother Boney"
Marte Broehm, "With Blue Hook in My Hand"
Curtis Church, "Circus of Life"
Robert Gibbons, "Navigation by Stars," and "The Fullness of Summer"
Gail Gilliland, "Tricks"
Julie Kovacs, "Pierre Eric Prospero Febriello," and "Voices Soaring"
Lawrence Lawson, "It's Up in the Air"
Laura LeHew, "A Grim Reaper," and "The Parts of Father"
Robin Merrill, "What the Older Ladies Say About Me in Church"
Corey Mesler, "The Narcoleptic Therapist" (4th Place Winner)
Micaela Myers, "The Lies I Told You"
JP Rodriguez, "Sparsely Large"
Edward Rubin, "On Being Taught Not to Fly"
Tom Sheehan, "Blue Glacier Beer"
John Sweet, "Blind Soundtrack for a Sleeping Child," and "On Approaching the Wall of Death"
Jeri Theriault, "Gloves" (1st Place Winner)
Larry D Thomas, "Pastelists"
Grégoire Vion, "In the Entrails of a Fish" (2nd Place Winner)
Christian Ward, "Prognosis"
Robert Judge Woerheide, "Greenhouse Effect"

Our thanks to all who submitted work.

16th Editors' Meeting

Here are a few pictures from today's editors' meeting. All those who submitted work for our 16th issue—due out April 15th—will hear from us soon with our decisions. It's going to be a great issue, and we thank everyone who submitted work, and all those who continue to read and support Perigee.