Countdown to the Inaugural Reading and the New Poet’s Market
- At October 01, 2012
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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The Redmond Reporter ran an article today about my upcoming Inaugural Poet Laureate Reading this Saturday…
http://www.redmond-reporter.com/entertainment/172142351.html
Sounds like fun, right?! Here’s the set up for Saturday, October 6th – a quick poetry reading by the new Poet Laureate (me!) with interactive video art show from 4:00-4:40, then Q&A, reception with wine and cheese and nuts and other fun stuff where you can wander around SecondStory Repertory looking at Michaela’s beautiful art collection curated for geeks (ie geek-friendly paintings of zombies, mermaids and foxes!) Feel free to hang out, ask questions, etc til 6 PM!
What would you set up for an introductory reading for the community if you had no budget limit? Would you have art? A band? a short opera? a rave? I’m super nervous about people coming to Saturday’s event so I hope you will come and bring friends, especially the kind of friends who have always been scared of poetry (most of the poetry will be youth-friendly, FYI.)
I picked up the new 2013 Poet’s Market
and really enjoyed Kelly Davio’s article on how to get out of the slush pile, Diane Lockward’s article on how to build an audience, and I might be in there too, though the article on chapbooks is slightly outdated, sorry! (Pudding House Press is out of business now, for instance, so don’t send there!)
One thing I noticed about the newest version of Poet’s Market is how much good solid introduction to poetry writing and submitting there is now, and how that makes it a great gift for the aspiring poet in your life! This year was the first year they also included original poetry, an interesting choice. I’m looking forward to paging through it at more length soon!
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.
