- At January 16, 2007
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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The Golden Globes…of Poetry?
Thanks to Mary Agner for sending me this link to the lit mag Siren. They have a page on the Best New Poets and Books of 2006. (A great name for a lit mag, too!) Among the best new poets listed, bloggers Jenni Russell, Teresa Ballard, Kate Greenstreet, and Oliver de la Paz appear…and Dorianne Laux (thanks Dorianne!) listed Becoming the Villainess as one of the best books of 2006!! Well, I would say Facts About the Moon is up on my list of best books of 2006 too!
That’s a nice thing to come home to, after graduating and having one of those two-hour panic attacks about “what the heck I’m going to do next with this darn MFA?” on the ride home last night…
And this morning, I woke up to Seattle covered with snow. It’s a freakin’ Christmas card out here!
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.
Nurse Fusion
Congratulations!
jeannine
Thanks!
Amanda Auchter
Congrats about your book! You must be thrilled.
Thanks for your comment about my work. It’s funny/exciting/weird/honoring when people start to read what you’ve written.
Don’t worry about the copies. We sent most of them before I left & are (today, in fact) sending the rest. Yours is in the latter. I hope you love this issue! The next one is what we’re excitedly referring to as our Bob Hicok issue. It’s due out in late April.
Congrats about graduating! What the hell are ‘ya going to do now. 😉