E-book anthologies, Best Book lists, and a wonderful find
Here are some reading resolutions for you for the new year:
You should check out Karen Weyant’s best poetry book list of 2011 – I’m honored to be included but the rest of the list is terrific as well!
You should also check out the wonderful e-book poetry anthology edited by Kelli R. Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy, Fire On Her Tongue: an eBook Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry
. I’ve got a few poems in it, as do wonderful Seattle poets like Martha Silano and Susan Rich, and superstars like Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux.
And, I am so grateful for finding this on my Kindle – one of my favorite Japanese writers, Osamu Dazai, put together a collection of fairy tales while he was alive in the 1930s. Now this collection is available in English (even on my Kindle!):
Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu (Translated)
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.
