So, I’ve been laid up the past couple of days with a cold that turned into a case of tonsillitis and an ear infection. Boo! I thought sunny CA was supposed to cure me of these problems!
With many important things to do, such as get my new class (Advanced Poetry Workshop – yay!) ready for it’s June start date, finish up the last couple of weeks of my spring class, send out poems, work on my new manuscript, prepare for another trip to Seattle, and try to get back in shape as I recover from my foot-break, what have I mostly been doing? Running a fever, sniffling, and watching reruns of “What Not To Wear.” Not a recipe for success for any of those goals. At least I haphazardly managed to read Fanny Howe’s memoir, The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation. I like her poems a lot, but I thought the book was a bit random; it read a lot like a blog, little bits of memory and asides and what she was reading at different times in her life. I haven’t read her other memoir/essay collection, The Wedding Dress, which I’ve heard good things about.
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.
Joannie
Jeannine, I’m so sorry to hear you’re under the weather even down in SoCal. But if you swing through Seattle, let me know.