Well, some bookish news…

Here’s Garrison Keillor reading my poem “Female Comic Book Superheroes” on the Friday June 7th The Writer’s Almanac…

and I found a review of my book in Midwest Book Review’s July 2006 issue:

Becoming the Villainess
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Steel Toe Books
Western Kennedy University, 1 Big Red Way, Bowling Green, KY 42101-35760974326437 $12.00 www.steeltoebooks.com
Becoming the Villainess is the debut collection of free-verse poetry by journalist Jeannine Hall Gailey. Addressing the archetypes of myth, from modern pop culture to Ovid to Grimm’s fairy tales, Gailey weaves words expressing the hearts of shunned, reviled, justly and unjustly treated villainesses and female victims of fable. A dramatic, moving collection; each poem has a gripping personal story to tell. “Daphne, Older”: Peel back my skin: / reveal hard fibers, bite marks, // scars from wind and rain. / Life is pain – I won’t tell you // any different. Just that sometimes, / avoiding what you fear // isn’t the answer. See? All these years / my branches sang with birds // and my leaves drank sunlight- / I haven’t missed much. // My heartwood hardens slowly / over time – first, to the music, then, to the light.”

This review, among others, can be found at http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/jul_06.htm under Poetry.