- At May 31, 2006
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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A little happy piece of poetry news…
Garrison Keillor will be reading a poem, “Spy Girls,” from Becoming the Villainess on the Writer’s Almanac on June 16th! So listen in and let me know what you think! I remember my Dad playing Garrison Keillor on the living room stereo when I was in high school. So this will be fun! Of course, I’ll be at school that week, so I’m not sure if I’ll sneak out of class to listen to it or what. Tune in to listen for Garrison Keillor to utter the words “shot with acid spray” and “blue wigs” in the same two minutes….possibly for the first time ever.
OK, back to my regularly scheduled pre-residency stressing-out-trying-to-get-everything done mode. Only one semester to go now!
PS I have a new enthusiasm for New Michigan Press – they’ve decided to publish chapbooks by a couple of my favorite poetry-bloggers, Paul Guest and Kristy Bowen. Congrats to them and to NMP for picking great poets!
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.
Peter
Yay, congrats! The idea of hearing Garrison read about Spy Girls in his musky baritone give me pause.
Suzanne
Wonderful, wonderful news! Congrats!! xo
Gerald Huml
Wow! The good news keeps rolling in for you. Congrats!
Kells
rock on! send me an email before this happens so I can listen!
TOO COOL! COnGRAT!
Kels
Anne
You don’t have to sneak out of class to listen! You can download the podcast and listen at your convenience. Ain’t technology grand? *grin*
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
I’m not sure how quickly after the broadcast the podcast becomes available, but today’s is there already, so it seems to be pretty prompt.
Lana Hechtman Ayers
Congrats!!! So happy for you.
It will be such a blast to hear your poem on Writer’s Almanac.
I told you, you’re my superhero.
Nick
Bravissima!
jeannine
Thanks all! Yes, Anne, I did check out the Podcast action – pretty sweet 🙂
PS You guys are the best. Hugs all around! (Do I sound like a junior high girl yet? LOL.)
32poems
Congratulations!
And thanks for posting the Colbert commencement. Hilarious.