My poem “Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding” is featured today on Rattle’s blog.
In other news, I have a chest cold. Cough cough.
Update: think good thoughts for my friends in Seattle. After ten days of snow and ice, now flooding: see this and this.

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.



Yokel (TKS)
Try this, J9:
Next best thing to chicken soup? || Crockpot Minestrone
Super easy and really fortifying, Jeannine. Skip the meatballs to keep it simple, if you like. I’m having some right now; second day, even better!
Tamara
Joannie
Yea for Tamara. Anything warm, accompanied by lots of water.
I hope you feel better soon.
Collin Kelley
Fab poem. Feel better! It took me the whole week to get back to normal.
Suzanne
Niiice! Congrats and feel better. xo