Dang! And Happy Mother’s Day to you Mothers!
**Update: I think both my contact form and book order form work again now. Try sending me a message for fun!
Thanks to this blog, I found out my webbish6 contact form is totally broken. Urgh! I hate it when my web site breaks (especially some of the creakier old code.) The code that my web site provider requires for a form mail has changed (without notice – thanks guys!) Plus I think my hotmail account is blocking my form mail. So I have to recode it to make it work, then redirect to my newish gmail account instead. I find gmail’s mail threads extremely hard to follow, so I’ve resisted gmail for a long time, but hotmail has given me a lot of headaches this year.
So, if you have used my contact form in the recent past, and not received a response, it’s not because I hate you – it’s because I never received your mail. I’m very, very sorry. I’ll try to get my contact form code back up and running soon.
In other news, I was browsing around at Open Books (best poetry bookstore ever, in Seattle) today and someone came in looking for my book. The minute she said “Becoming the Villainess” I was all “brrrt?” What are the odds? Hi-larious. So glad I stopped in! Plus I picked up that new women-in-poetry mentoring book. And another copy of Daisy Fried’s My Brother is Getting Arrested Again (to replace the one that disappeared from my book shelves after I lent it out.) I love love love that title. In the book, the title poem is (which I think is a persona poem) is about the speaker’s brother getting arrested for some kind of righteous protesting. It would have been more fun if he had been knocking over a liquor store or something. Also, that’s what young men in the neighborhood I grew up in were more likely to be arrested for. I mean, it’s still a good poem, but, you know…
Coming soon: a review of the new Rhino 2008, since I just got my contributor copy in the mail.
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.
Felicity
Hmm…I think there’s a way to turn off the gmail threading, and I know for sure you can get another email client to pick up gmail. That might help?
Awesome about the book. Did you put your oar in and offer to sign it? 😛
Wendy Wisner
I got my contributor’s copy of Rhino in the mail too, and I’ve been wanting to tell you how much I adored your poem. It sounds like you’re working on a really cool project.
Collin
Hotmail has been a pain in the ass lately…emails not arriving, being lost in the ether. I’m thinking about jumping ship to gmail.
jeannine
Felicity – yes, I should probably think about using (gulp) Outlook but it’s such a pain to run. If you could give me the tip on turning off the threading, it would be much appreciated!
Wendy – Oh, thanks! Your poem was great too – and did you see Suzanne’s too? I’m telling you, our blog community is quite chock full of good writers!
Collin – I’m with you. It’s especially bad with editors and possible job contacts – I need some reliable e-mail (besides my embarrassingly old AOL account.)
jeannine
Dear Wendy, OK, Suzanne’s poem wasn’t in Rhino as I thought – I must have seen it in another magazine and shuffled it in my mind into Rhino. I blame my advancing age…but the issue is still pretty great!