Well, recovering from pneumonia at home, I figured it was a good time to peruse the new Pebble Lake Review, which has a new issue on Health and Illness. You’ll find a couple of poems by me there, and great poems by Michelle Bitting, Hsiao-Shih (Raechel) Lee, D.A. Powell and Franz Wright, among others.
I was also thinking how this poem seems so very timely. How many times can a girl be told she’d make a great experimental subject by doctors in hospitals before it begins to affect her psyche?
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On the plus side, the doctor told me I have a lovely singing voice. She said she’d never had a patient sing at the hospital before. I guess I sing when I’m sick and stressed.
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.
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