- At January 20, 2007
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
3
Unrelated Notes: Warning, Written While Groggy
Anne McCaffrey was inducted into the Seattle Science Fiction Museum Hall of Fame today. While she gets lots of accolades for her series Dragonflight, but her best work, in my opinion, was her Dragonsinger trilogy for young adults.
I think I’m still recovering from my graduation residency. I’ve been sleeping a ton and I still feel groggy, tired. Also I’ve been anemic (with low ferritin as well) this past month or so, which does nothing for energy levels (PS I have a chronic bleeding disorder, so this isn’t really shocking. Just annoying. Usually eating the right things brings me back into balance in a week or so. I’m addressing this issue this minute with french toast and scrambled eggs. With vitamin C! Eggs have iron, right?) Good thing I’m not a marathon runner in my spare time! Anyway, I’m putting off any overdue partying (you know who you are! Sorry!) for a few more days.
If you are still interested in reviewing Becoming the Villainess and just haven’t gotten a chance, Galatea Resurrects has a copy available for review. I’m writing my first review for them as we speak.
In other poetry news, good friend Jennifer Thorton (Box-of-Birds) lent me the slam-bang magazine of scientific and nature-oriented poetry, Isotope. It’s pretty cool. I like discovering new magazines.
So, if anybody has post-MFA advice for me, (you know, what to do in the first six months, how to keep building steam, etc…) lay it down in the comments field.
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.
Anonymous
Well, what I did post MFA . . .
I bought a stereo that I couldn’t afford, worried about being gainfully employed, and sent out numerous job applications. I also joined a gym, lost 20lbs, quit smoking, and started sending my manuscript out. You, however, already have a book, so that’s good.
If I were to do it over again . . . I’d apply to fellowships, residencies, grants, etc..
I don’t think I’d be in such a rush to go into academia the second time around, honestly.
Anonymous
Isotope used to be called Petroglyph. They publish out of Utah State University. I was lucky enough to have a poem selected for it when it was still Petroglyph. That must have been six years ago.
Do they still use the larger, 8.5 x 11 size? I have not had a chance to submit anything appropriate since they switched name and refined their thematic direction.
jeannine
Thanks for the advice, Oliver…I guess I better hop to filling out those grant and fellowship proposale…:)
Justin – Yes, it’s still in a magazine-sized format. It’s a good little pub.