Pre-Ordering My New Book, Montaigne Medal Finalist, and Surviving Medical Tests
- At April 27, 2016
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Hi all! Survived the latest round of medical testing (no results yet) and came home from the hospital to a flurry of literary news!
First of all, you can now pre-order my latest book, Field Guide to the End of the World, from Moon City Press (and distributed through University of Arkansas Press.) It’s also on Amazon already, squeee!
The other news was that the finalists for the 2016 Montaigne Medal have been publicly announced and The Robot Scientist’s Daughter is on the list, along with poet-friend Maggie Smith’s latest book. It’s nice to have poetry books in a list of finalists for a prize on “thought-provoking books” of any genre.
The third is to keep an eye on Orion’s social media feed this week for a post from me on their visual series “Poetry in the Wild,” curated by their poetry editor Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
Part of how I survive so many medical tests is a plan to have good things going on right before (also, the doctors wisely gave me a generous portion this time of pre-medications to prevent any allergic reactions – good work, doctors!) A few days before the test, we had an early birthday celebration with my little brother and his wife, which was a lot of fun, and Glenn took me to an Aimee Mann/Billy Collins concert down in Tacoma’s beautiful antique Pantages theatre.
Here’s a picture of Aimee laughing at Billy Collins’ reading and check out this little bit of video of Aimee turning one of Billy Collins’ poems into a melancholy breakup tune:
https://webbish6.com/aimee-billy-france/
If Billy Collins and Aimee Mann can’t cheer you up, I don’t know what will!
Jennifer Barricklow
What an uplifting post – so much exciting news! I’m glad your testing was less ordealish than it might have been; prayers and fingers crossed that you get some useful information. 🙂