- At August 10, 2005
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Why I like British magazines so much better than American magazines…
The August issue of Harper’s and Queen Magazine (The British equivalent of Harper’s Bazaar) commissioned three women writers to write contemporary takes on three Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales, especially for the magazine. I’d love to see that in the middle of Cosmo.
Speaking of Cosmo, and self-indulgent vanity, I need your help deciding which picture to use for my web site and other promotional stuff – my old picture is a few years old now, so I had my husband take some new shots. Let me know which one is your favorite. There’s a time limit – I’m taking the pics down tomorrow night.
Also, I’m giving a lecture tomorrow at Ravenna Third Place Books on Humor and Poetry, so if you’re in the neighborhood, come check it out.
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.
aimee
i like #2–hip necklace, a little air of mystery–voila!
Suzanne
I like #2, too and #1 ’cause it has a little attitude. 😉 J, you have beautiful eyes!
Wendy Wisner
#3’s my pick! Pretty, pretty.
Peter
Jeannine: Wish I could hear your lecture. Will it be posted online? Humor is a very serious topic indeed!
Peter
I like #2 best . . . though all of them are the gorgeous. xo
Steven D. Schroeder
Concur on 2
David Vincenti
One more vote for 2, and one more wish for some of your lecture to appear here (or be available to your loyal readers for the low low prices of $9.99 plus S&H)!
jeannine
Thanks, Aimee, Suzanne, Wendy, Peter, David, and Steven, for indulging me and voting! I really appreciate your help (picking out photos is one of my least favorite things to do.) And thanks for all the kind comments – remind me to send you all Godiva chocolates on the next holiday!
I’ll be sending the humor presentation to Esther at It’s About Time and it should be posted soon – I’ll set up a link when it’s done. Of course, you can e-mail me and I’ll send you a copy in Word format if you want too. I’d post it on the site but it probably breaks copyright rules since it has poems by B. Collins, J. Tate, other living poets, etc. It’s mainly definitions of different modes of humor (satire, parody, etc) and examples of such. Not much you can do in 15-20 minutes!