Poets Versus Illness, Good News for Mary Agner, and the holidays continue…
Good news for fellow science-poetry-writer Mary A. Agner: her new book, The Scientific Method, is out. Here is a pic at her blog, lovely! Congrats Mary! Just in time for Christmas!
http://www.pantoum.org/entries/2011/12/06.shtml
I wrote a long blog post after reading Rae Armantrout’s essays on her cancer and my own long experience with health issues, and I put it up on my PAI-1 deficiency blog. It’s called Poets Versus Illness: How to Be Your Own Superheroine. It’s kind of long, and personal, and details some of the things I think are crucial to think about when you’re sick and tips I’ve gleaned on how to manage your own health care. I’m putting the link here in case you are interested in that kind of thing.
Yes, missing a reading at Seattle Arts & Lectures tonight I really wanted to go to – Terrence Hayes, who is a great reader. So blech to that. Still having some trouble breathing with the pleurisy, so, you know, rest, fluids, new inhalers, etc. The endless ice fog here in Seattle is not helping things. If only I could beam some Napa weather up here for the holidays. Also found out I’m still having trouble keeping up the b12 even with monthly shots. Guess we’re going to twice a month. Now, if only I could get shots of sunshine…
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.
