I will always be grateful to the two female editors who took my very first two poems ever published in “real” literary magazines, Colleen J. McElroy (at that time, the editor of The Seattle Review) and Marion K. Stocking (who was, at that time, editor of The Beloit Poetry Journal.)
I just heard that Marion passed away today. I was very sad, because I think without her kind words and encouragement all those years ago I wouldn’t have had the courage to send out again, to keep trying. I remember how proud I was to hold that copy of BPJ in my hands, how I gave my extra contributor’s copy to my mother. Thanks Marion.
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Jeannine Hall Gailey
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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Rachel Dacus
Sorry to hear of Marion Stocking’s passing, but I was glad to know she gave you such encouragement. It’s so important at critical moments.