- At January 31, 2006
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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I wanted to shine a spotlight on a great new site created for “sharing and discovering opportunities for first books of poetry” called Imprimatur- a wonderful new resource for people who are in the process of having a first book of poems published or would like to. It was created by our own Ivy Alvarez – here’s the link: http://ivyai.wordpress.com/
It has everything from tips on negotiating contracts to publicity information and prizes. I know I would have loved to have had a resource like that when I first started doing book research.
Also, the lovely and talented blogger Rachel Dacus has guest-edited an issue of kaleidowhirl, which contains poems by me, fellow blogger Kelli Agodon, and fellow-Steel Toe Books author and biochemist Jennifer Gresham.
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.
