- At February 15, 2006
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Embarrassment of poetry riches in the mail in the last few days…
Charles Jensen sent me a copy of Red Mountain Review, which besides containing his impressive chapbook of intense, persuasive poems, also had a poem by Janet Knox (one of my workshop peeps,) an old classmate of mine from the U of Cincinnati, Jim Murphy, fellow Blogger Alison Pelegrin…I mean, how fun is that? It’s a great looking journal, by the way, for those of you that don’t have it yet…
Also, received Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s beautiful broadsides of the twisted but delicious poem “Small Murders” – how can you not love that? It also has a picture of Aimee on it. If there is ever a fashion-doll created for poets, they should use her as a model. With accessories!
Speaking of fashion and accessories, page 62 of the March Glamour (on shelves now!) there are two poems, one from Louise Glück’s upcoming book, Averno, which I am very much looking forward to. Poetry in fashion magazines? How do I get some of that action? Better than the NY Times…
Found out I may be helping to judge a small chapbook contest. I’m excited to do it. The press is one that does really great work.
Time is getting close on the book. Must find reviewers. I think I have five and I should have more like ten or fifteen at least. If you’d like to be on my list of peeps to receive copies of the book for review, let me know, and if you have any suggestions of good places to send my book for review, let me know that too. It’s knuckle-chewing work, I tell you. I know you’re going to get sick of me talking about it, so just give me a hand-signal or something when I go on too long…
Also, picked out poems for the reading on Saturday at Radcon. Twenty minutes worth, though I’m signed up for thirty, because thirty minutes can seem really long. Also considering doing research on the panel topics, “Mythology in sci-fi” and “Writing for gamers,” though I think I know something about both topics.
Sent a brand new chapbook of animé/Japanese fairy tale poems to Tupelo’s chapbook contest. I wasn’t even thinking of doing another chapbook, but I’ve been spitting out all these poems that kind of have the same theme, so I thought, why not? Nothing ventured…
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.
Emily Lloyd
Jeannine–backchannel at elloyd74@hotmail.com if you like–I wasn’t able to review a chap (remember?) for School Library Journal but a book, that would work…exposes you to a very different market (a bit wider, I think) than most reviews; SLJ reviews also get posted at amazon.com and bn.com under “Editorial Reviews.” Fairly recent (I’ve been very slack this past, um, six months) poetry books I”ve reviewed for them include Denise Duhamel’s Two and Two and Thomas Sayers Ellis’s The Maverick Room. I think your work, recurring subjects are very well-suited for this audience (young adults, gobblers of graphic novels–which I also review regularly) as well as the “usual” poetry audience–lemme know what you think. best, em
Rusty
Awesome. Is this new stuff you are reading? Or a mix of old and new. I guess I will find out when you do it. I’m riding up with Michaela Friday morning. Can’t wait to see you!
Steven D. Schroeder
The Eleventh Muse/Poetry West could do a review–our website + potentially the journal…
32poems
Your post gave me an idea for a poem!
About the review, we don’t do reviews for 32 poems. I’d be happy to put an ad in the magazine for you — no charge — and have been thinking about doing that anyway. You would need to have someone design the ad and send it in the proper format. Email me if you are interested.
Also…since you are a former contributor to 32, we can promote your book on our web site. Very few people take advantage of that and we get a good deal of traffic.
jeannine
Thanks everyone! I really appreciate your help!
Anonymous Poet
It sounds like a cornucopia of poetry. : )