Comments on: https://webbish6.com/2061/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: b https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1172 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:37:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1172 Thank you muchly for the AWP blog link.

]]> By: cornshake https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1171 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:04:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1171 feel better, J! and yeah, AWP has been in Palm Springs and Vancouver and both were happily ‘doable’ and not so cram-packed! time for another vist to the west. my vote is for san diego!

]]> By: Jilly https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1170 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:11:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1170 My chiropractor said grapefruit seed extract is good for sore throats.

Hope you feel better soon.

]]> By: Peter https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1169 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:25:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1169 Congrats on you award. It’s pretty wonderful!

Now: Get well soon!

]]> By: megalopoet https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1168 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:48:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1168 oh dear, hoping for no more emergency visits.

tickled to hear you’ll post on the persona– and, because of your earlier post, i’ve this image of you wraithing about the moors all very bronte and, as you said, the sickly lit femme.

but this is not a proper sunbeaming scenario, so now i’m renvisioning you as the plucky heroine, the bootstraps queen, a sassy jane austen-esque if you will. feel better soon!

]]> By: Joannie https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1167 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:26:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1167 Jeannine, I hope you feel better–immediately! And please disregard my earlier email. I hadn’t had a chance read about the latest updates (downdates?).

]]> By: Mosker https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1166 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:50:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1166 If I haven’t offered, forgive me. I have more room than I need and am happy to sleep on the couch. Any time you and/or hubby want to visit, it is no problem. Parking in Venice may be an issue, but we got sun, and a decent little poetry scene.

]]> By: Collin https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1165 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:50:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1165 Feel better, honey.

I just wasted 30 minutes of my life I’ll never get back at the pissing contest at the Harriet blog. When they start rolling their resumes and difficult childhoods into the argument, I immediately switch off.

]]> By: Karen J. Weyant https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1164 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:24:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1164 Jeannine, Jeannine, Jeannine, — what are we going to do with you? Don’t visit western New York — that’s for sure. Today, we are experiencing -15 degree wind chills with blowing snow. I haven’t been able to get warm all day and I have tried everything — hot baths, crawling under the blankets with a fat cat, heavy flannel pj’s!

On another note, I’m not an expert on AWP (having never attended on of the conferences), but other national organizations do have conferences on the west coast — including the National League of Innovations for Community Colleges and College Reading Learning Association Conference. What is up with AWP?

]]> By: Felicity https://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1163 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 23:12:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2061/#comment-1163 Not to be all regionalist (okay, actually, to be completely regionalist) but why the hell isn’t it ever on the West Coast?

These are all the sites and dates I could find on their site:

2006 Austin, Texas
2007 Atlanta, Georgia
2008 New York, New York
2009 Chicago, Illinois
2010 Denver, Colorado
2011 Washington D.C.
2012 Chicago, Illinois
2013 Boston, Massachusetts

You know I don’t have my finger on the pulse of the literary world — heck, my finger’s off playing on the literary world’s little brother’s PS3 — but is there an actual reason why the conference is rarely as far west as the Rockies, and never further? Is it to make it easier for publishing big wigs from New York, or do they just think this whole coast is irrelevant?

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