Tuesday, May 16th, 7:30 PM
Jeannine Hall Gailey and Martha Silano read from their new books, Becoming the Villainess and Blue Positive!
Location: Open Books in Wallingford
I hope to see you there! And for margaritas afterwards!

In the everything happens at once newsbin:
Stanley Kunitz, who was 101, passed away.
I had a lovely late birthday party/workshop over on Bainbridge Island with my poet friends there. The cake had rasperry filling and pink roses, we wore leis, the weather was perfect – the yard was full of palm-sized squirrels and chipmunks.
One of my very favorite poets, Annette Spaulding-Convy, just won Floating Bridge Press’s Chapbook Contest. Her chapbook is going to be fantastic.
The lilacs are blooming everywhere.
I interviewed retiring Seattle Review editor Colleen McElroy for a feature Seattle Woman Magazine is going to do on her. Always a fun conversation.
I just got contributor copies of the new 2006 Evansville Review, with my poem “Becoming the Villainess” and poems by poets like XJ Kennedy and my former professor Andrew Hudgins, and the Spring/Summer 2006 Seattle Review, which had two poems from my book and a poem by blogger-and-friend Peter Pereira.
Of course, just to make life exciting, my dear husband G. had some bad clam chowder while I was with the poet friends so I was up most of the night last night bringing him ice chips and gingerale while he was pretty miserably getting read of said toxins. Yawnn…hope I get some sleep tonight…must be alert for the reading…after that, it’s on the Skagit River Poetry Festival – a busy week ahead…