Reading in Issaquah with Kelly Davio tomorrow, more house excitement, and the news
- At August 17, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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I’m reading at Issaquah’s Talking Pages Poetry Night tomorrow night, with a craft talk by Kelly Davio! Here’s the info…
Talking Pages Poetry Night
August 18, 7 p.m.
Historic Shell Station
232 Front St. N., Issaquah
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We are pleased to welcome featured poets Jeannine Hall Gailey and Kelly Davio for our August event.
Jeannine Hall Gailey is a former Redmond poet laureate and the author of four books of poetry. Kelly Davio is poetry editor of Tahoma Review and author of the poetry collection Burn This House. |
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Talking Pages is co-sponsored by the City of Issaquah Arts Commission. You should come out! It will be fun!
And if everything goes smoothly, we’ll be closing on our house sale (gulp) this Thursday! Crazy! Have we found another house to live in yet? No!!! We went in and saw another do-able house, but the pre-inspection revealed mold, this time both under and over the house. It’s a big problem with older homes here, unfortunately, and I’m super-sensitive to mold. So, onward!
Terrible stuff in the news today – a bombing in Bangkok, where my little brother lived until recently, and shellings in the Ukraine. A big explosion in China that they sort of, but not really, covered up. On a lesser level, a dustup about AWP not awarding a creative non-fiction award this year. (With 178 entries, they should have been able to find one they could at least edit into excellence, right?) I’m taking my husband, G, to the doctor today to follow up on his hospital test results, which were somewhat worrying, so we hope they have some good answers and advice for us there. A lot of unease out there right now, in the atmosphere, in me. You feel powerless in the face of bad things, because in some ways, we are. We can only do what we can in the space and time we are given.
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.
