So, my dear readers, today is an interactive blog post! Any help is most appreciated!
Are there any journals you know of that pay for poetry book reviews? I have a stack of good books on my review stand…including Pattiann Rogers newest!
And, I’m working on a piece for non-writers explaining prose poetry. Do you have any suggestions about what they need to know? I’ve got all the usual background (French surrealism, Charles Simic, Frank O’Hara quote…) but am looking for more!
Also, I’m pleased that one of my friends (can’t say who or what contest) just got the phone call that told her she won a big poetry contest. I was so excited for her. Hopefully these things happen in constellations. I would love to have a phone call like that…
Speaking of good things happening to friends, what is Paul Guest talking about? That boy is such a big tease!
Have I mentioned already that we have to move again no later than September? Last night I dreamed Glenn and I were driving trying to escape hundreds of very dark tornadoes. Stress much?
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.
Peter
Hi J9: Who won the book contest? Please backchannel if you can tell.
Re Paul G: I am guessing he is a Pulitzer Finalist. Thay boy is on a roll!
Karen J. Weyant
Talk about being a tease? When can you say who won the book contest? …
Can’t help much with the other questions you asked…in reference to prose poetry, do you have the anthology edited by David Lehman titled Great American Prose Poems? The Intro is rather helpful….
jeannine
Oh, shoot, it turns out it was a big contest for a single poem, not a book – whoops! But it’s still a big prize – with a reading trip attached – good times!
Peter – wouldn’t that be cool for Paul?
Karen – yes, I’ve already quoted Lehman in my article 😉
anhaga
The Pedestal pays for reviews, and I suspect you would fit right in.
As to prose poems, do you have anything about Kafka’s “Parables”? Discussions of prose poems often miss Kafka, because his are usually categorized as (very short) “fiction,” but they are also an important source for Surrealists and Simic, etc.