Atticus Review Feature (Plus Lavender Fields and Art Walks)
- At June 03, 2016
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Thanks to Michael Meyerhofer and Atticus Review for this feature of poems from my upcoming book, Field Guide to the End of the World. I hope you enjoy this “sneak preview!”
I’ve been a little under the weather since the Skagit Poetry Festival but managed to try and get a little inspiration. The Woodinville Lavender farm has one field that just came into bloom – no bees yet, just the sweet clean smell of little purple flowers (and lavender lemonade in the accompanying shop!)
After a doctor’s appointment downtown I got a chance to stop by Open Books and then to a quick tour of the Pioneer Square Art Walk, to my old favorite gallery, Roq La Rue. They had a new one-artist show up by Meghan Howland called “Your Magic is Real.” This was the piece I liked the best – a woman who seems to breaking through a wall of wings called “Forager.” Sadly, Roq La Rue is closing on September 1, so if you get a chance to visit before then, do it – they have two more shows to go before that.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
