Some more on Poets Earning a Living, a continuation of my current fascination with the subject:
http://pshares.blogspot.com/2008/05/bah.html
Ploughshares blog discusses this article:
http://www.nplusonemag.com/?q=money
The N+1 article reminds me I am spending too much on rent.
Second Book Blues
So, working on the re-organization of my two manuscripts for the next set of deadlines. For all the “first book” contests, there really aren’t that many places interested in reading second books. It feels harder this time than last, and that could be simple math – there’s just not as many places I can send. Fewer places are accepting open submissions; Copper Canyon’s contest for first or second books is on indefinite hiatus, Wave Books isn’t accepting subs til next year, Ausable decided not to read open subs this year, etc. Sign of the times?
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.
newzoopoet
Hi Jeannine,
Have you checked out the Morse Prize?
Angela
Supervillainess
Thanks Angela! That’s a good reminder – I forgot that the Morse wasn’t just first books!
Karen J. Weyant
Jeannine,
Have you checked out CavanKerry Press’s Laurel Books series — depending on the specific spin of your books (I’m thinking of some of the poems you have written/I had read including my favorite “The Taste of Rust in August”) this may work for you…
Karen
Karen Rigby
New Issues Press, The Green Rose Prize. http://www.wmich.edu/newissue/GreenRosePrize.html
Sarabande’s open reading in September.
Perugia Press:
http://www.perugiapress.com/