- At September 10, 2005
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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This just in: Poetry News Headlines
Just wanted to let any Haiku fans in the audience know about this:
Haiku North America – a weekend conference – Sept 21-25 at Centrum Center for the Arts, Port Townsend, WA. Register and find out more at http://www.centrum.org/index.php?page=Haiku-North-America-Conference
Also, Wendy Wisner’s Epicenter is subversively dark around the edges, elegant and spare in a way that reminds me of Louise Gluck, and definitely worth a second and third reading. Brava Wendy!
My friend Ronda Broatch is launching her new chapbook from Finishing Line Press tonight. Congrats!
And congrats to Deborah and Suzanne and thier fabulous new babies!
Not poetry-related, but hilarious: When my hematologist brought in a diagnostic pathologist to meet me this week and talk about all my weird health anomalies, I made a side-joke as she expressed her surprise at my many low-probability genetic-mutation-related anamolies – “Yes, any day now I expect to be getting my superpowers.” And she said? “Like the X-Men?” Finally, a doctor who gets my comic book references! Plus, she was tall and looked like Famke Janssen. If I was a guy and not happily married, I would have asked her out right there.
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
Great stories (this post and the one before) . . . made me smile. Doctor’s office waiting rooms are whole subgenre aren’t they? The fish aquariums and fake plants and children’s play areas and 3-year-old issues of People.
Wendy Wisner
You’re very kind. I’ve just started your chapbook. I hadn’t written or read poems in so long (well, a month or two). Your poems are bringing me back again, getting me excited about good old line breaks, carefully chosen language. I can’t wait to read more.
jeannine
Thanks Peter – I think my next project will be a manuscript all about doctors’ office decor 🙂
And thanks Wendy – Epicenter is so good, I can’t wait for your next book!
32poems
Thanks for the congrats about Olive. Suzanne, too? I’ll have to visit her blog!
deborah