- At August 28, 2006
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Good News Abounds!
Check out Aimee Nezkumathil’s interview in Kate’s First Book series – here’s a great quote – “I think little girls, especially, are trained early on to say sorry for everything: for being loud or too quiet, for being first, being last, for winning, for losing. But on the page, I know I can be as bold (or as nuanced) as I want to be. No apologies needed (unless they are to myself, during revision!).”
Tom C. Hunley (publisher of Steel Toe Books and a darn fine poet) and Steven Schroeder will both be featured on Verse Daily this week! (Tom’s poem Here!) (Steven’s poem Here!)
My friend Kathleen Flenniken will have a poem from her new book, Famous, on Poetry Daily this week on Friday.
Lana Ayers, another good friend, has a chapbook, “Love is a Weed,” now available from Finishing Line Press: http://www.finishinglinepress.com/2006newreleasesandforthcomingtitles.htm
Congrats to all of these great poets! We’ve got to celebrate 🙂
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.
Steven D. Schroeder
Thanks for the mention! 🙂
Tamara
RE: Sorry Girls
Interesting, J9. I am constantly telling my older daughter A to *stop* saying she’s sorry all the time. For the oddest things.
She says something like: “Such-and-such TV show is on at this time,” and I reply, “No, actually, it’s at such-and-such time,” and then she says “Sorry.” Weird! M and I just keep telling her the apologies are only for real mistakes and only when you really are sorry.
I remember going through a “sorry” period myself. I hope it’s only a phase. In fact, she’s been doing it less, so maybe the lesson’s sinking in that she’s okay being imperfect and not knowing/being everything. Society *does* expect so much of our young ladies.
Tamara