A few nice surprises for the end of November…
Today I had a few nice surprises…
The first was receiving in the mail a copy of Tom C. Hunley’s The Poetry Gymnasium, a book of 95 class exercises for poetry. I was honored to have my poem “Cinderella, at the Car Dealership” included in the “Literary Retellings” exercise section, of course, but the whole book is a lot of fun. I may even use it to help me generate more poems myself this next month!
The next was reading Mary A. Agner’s lovely blog review of She Returns to the Floating World (scroll down to “reading”) – Mary’s a really astute reader and a great poet herself, particularly science and fairy-tale poetry.
And the third was seeing my poems up with Saeed Jones at the Ishaan Literary Review’s very first issue:
http://ishaanliteraryreview.com/?page_id=158#adviceleft
I met Saeed in Tom C. Hunley’s class when I went to visit Western Kentucky U in, I think, 2006. I thought “what a bright and extraordinary poet” when he read his exercise poem in class. A bright and shiny star to watch.
Happy End of November Every One!
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.
