How is your April going? Are you doing anything fun for poetry month?
Tomorrow I’m going to the Agitprop poetry reading, and I’m excited. The only question: what kind of outfit goes with black-velcro-walking-boot casts? And I’ve made reservations – I’m going to the LA Festival of Books later this month. It’s a few days before my birthday, so I’m going to celebrate by visiting Santa Monica and other favorite LA spots along with the book festival.
Allrighty, today’s poem-a-day poem…[poof!]
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.
Serena
I’m doing the PAD Challenge at Poetic Asides, which I guess can count for NaPoWriMo as well…though PAD has prompts that have got the creative juices flowing.
Rachel Dacus
I’m doing the daily poem at the Gazebo-in-Exile workshop and also giving away a chapbook a day to the first person who emails for it. Wish I could meet you at the LA Book Festival! I’m planning a trip down south but probably won’t make it by then. One of these days, we must meet from our disparate ends of the state! Can’t wait to hear about the agitprop reading and what you wore.
Nic Sebastian
Missed April 3 poem. Got to be more on the ball. The first ten days are usually OK for me; then it gets really tough.
Robert
“What kind of outfit goes with black-velcro-walking-boot casts?”
Pink tutu.