{"id":6654,"date":"2013-04-29T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=6654"},"modified":"2013-04-29T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T12:41:00","slug":"lr-news-national-poetry-month-2013-giveaway-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/lr-news-national-poetry-month-2013-giveaway-results\/","title":{"rendered":"LR News: National Poetry Month 2013 Giveaway Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thank you so much to all of you who entered our 2013 National Poetry Month giveaway! \u00a0This weekend, we put the total number of entries (comments) received through a random number generator, and let it choose the number of the winning comment for us:<\/p>\n

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And the winner is \u00a0. . .<\/p>\n

Noel Mariano\u00a0<\/strong>(comment #13), who writes that he is currently\u00a0in the midst of reading Barbara Jane Reyes’s\u00a0Diwata<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and re-reading Bino Realuyo’s\u00a0The Gods We Worship Live Next Door<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a screenshot of his comment:<\/p>\n

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Noel will receive a 1-year subscription to the Asian American Literary Review<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(courtesy of AALR<\/em>),\u00a0<\/em>a copy of Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut’s\u00a0Magnetic Refrain<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(courtesy of Kaya Press<\/a>), and a copy of Henry W. Leung’s\u00a0Paradise Hunger<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(courtesy of the author). Congratulations, Noel! \u00a0We hope you’ll enjoy your prize!<\/p>\n

Also as promised, each of the first ten commentors to have entered the contest will receive a bundle of five of our poetry starter packs. These lucky ten people are, in the order in which their comments were received:<\/p>\n

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  1. Rumit Pancholi<\/strong>, who’s reading Li-Young Lee and Garrett Hongo.<\/li>\n
  2. Cathy Linh Che<\/strong>, who adores Srikanth Reddy’s\u00a0Facts for Visitors<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. R.<\/strong>, who has Myung Mi Kim and Barbara Jane Reyes on the top of their list.<\/li>\n
  4. Roberto Ascalon<\/strong>, who’s reading Jon Pineda and looking forward to Jason Bayani’s\u00a0Amulet<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Michelle Penaloza<\/strong>, who recommends both Eugene Gloria and Luisa Igloria.<\/li>\n
  6. Luisa Igloria<\/strong>, who wrote of her love for Paisley Rekdal’s work.<\/li>\n
  7. Michelle Lin<\/strong>, who’s enjoying Kimiko Hahn’s The N<\/em><\/a>arrow Road to the Interio<\/a>r\u00a0<\/em>at the moment.<\/li>\n
  8. Rachelle<\/strong>, who’s reading Brynn Saito and Jason Bayani, and is waiting for\u00a0Manila Noir<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(ed. Jessica Hagedorn)<\/li>\n
  9. Jane Wong<\/strong>, who recently finished (and loved) Lynn Xu’s\u00a0Debts and Lessons<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and also recommends the work of Cathy Park Hong (having recently read\u00a0Engine Empire<\/em><\/a>)\u00a0and Myung Mi Kim.<\/li>\n
  10. Kristen Eliason<\/strong>, who says she visits and revisits\u00a0For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut<\/em><\/a> by Takashi Hiraide,\u00a0Mad Science in Imperial City<\/em><\/a> by Shanxing Wang, and\u00a0Incubation: A Space for Monsters<\/em><\/a> by Bhanu Kapil.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We were thrilled to see everyone’s responses. There was a wide range of names mentioned in the thirty-four comments that were left on the original post; Ching-In Chen, Kimiko Hahn, and Li-Young Lee topped the list at 4, 3, and 3 mentions each, while\u00a0a number of other poets (Jason Bayani, Tarfia Faizullah, Bhanu Kapil, Myung Mi Kim, Karen Llagas, Barbara Jane Reyes, Ocean Vuong, Lynn Xu, and Andre Yang) were mentioned twice.\u00a0Other writers who showed up on people’s lists included: Arthur Sze, Karen An-Hwei Lee, Dilruba Ahmed, Angie Chuang, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Kenji Liu, David Maduli,\u00a0Pos L. Moua, Soul Choj Vang, Ka Vang, Sesshu Foster, Angela Torres, Matthew Olzmann, Koon Woon, Allen Qing Yuan, Beau Sia, Amy Uyematsu, Russell Leong, Mitsuye Yamada, Joel Tan, Tsering Wangmo, Lee Herrick, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, David S. Cho, Bao Phi, Ed Bok Lee, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Sasha Pimental Chacon, Burlee Vang, Ishle Yi Park, Sally Wen Mao,\u00a0Lo Kwa Mei-En, and Hoa Nguyen. (To read about these recommendations \u00a0in more detail, click here<\/a> to see the original post).\u00a0Many commentors also took the time to leave detailed remarks about the work of the poets they’d mentioned. Their recommendations have definitely nudged us to add several names and \u00a0titles to our reading lists, and we hope they’ve inspired you, too!<\/p>\n

    Congratulations to all our winners, and thank you so much again to everyone who entered, as well as to our generous sponsors,\u00a0AALR,\u00a0<\/em>Kaya, and Henry Leung.\u00a0A very happy tail end of National Poetry Month to you all! \u00a0We’ll see you on the flip side, in May, when we’ll continue our celebration of Asian American poetry with more special content for APIA Heritage Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Thank you so much to all of you who entered our 2013 National Poetry Month giveaway! \u00a0This weekend, we put the total number of entries (comments) received through a random number generator, and let it choose the number of the winning comment for us: And the winner is \u00a0. . . Noel Mariano\u00a0(comment #13), who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[273,17],"tags":[136,276,958,355,540,274,923,962,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6654"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6654\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}