No AWP NYC for me after all…
Just got a phone call from my doc telling me I have a complicated case of strep throat and have to stay home until I’ve been on antibiotics for at least three days. I was all packed and ready and everything. Hair was cut, special travel sizes were bought, paper printed out and ready. I will miss saying hi to you all and all the fun. Waaaah! I should have known something funny was going on when my throat practically swelled shut. That doesn’t usually happen with a cold.
Anyway, have a great time and tell us all about it! Wishing you good health and a great time. I’m getting ready to call and cancel my AWP registration so maybe one of you can catch the opening after all…
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.
A. D.
Sorry, Jeannine. Feel better.
Karen J. Weyant
I’m so sorry, Jeannine. I know you were looking forward to the trip. I do hope you feel better, soon!
Diane Lockward
Oh rats! I was so looking forward to meeting you and sharing space at the same table. I’ll take lots of photos and post them for you. Get better.
Joannie
How disappointing! I hope you feel better soon (sooner than soon). I think K~ and I will both be here helping to hold down this coast.
Anne
Oh, that sucks! I hope you feel better soon. Take good care of yourself.
Collin
Strep is the worst. I had a case like that once. Rest up and feel better. See you at AWP in 09. 🙂
Sara
We’ll miss you, Jeannine! Feel better.
jeannine
Aw, thanks everyone!
I’ll miss catching up with my blog friends – and meeting some for the first time – the most of anything.
Diane – same to you! Maybe next year? Or maybe I’ll get out to NJ some other time this year…you and Sara take lots of pics for me!
Jilly
🙁 rats.