Where to find me this week…
Well, if you haven’t been reading the sidebar of my blog, then you don’t know (what? you don’t read my blog sidebars, full of their wonderful links to other blogs and web sites and useful information?!) that…
I’ll be teaching two afternoons this week (Tuesday and Thursday) at Port Townsend’s Centrum Writers Conference on haibun and haiku. Other guest-afternoon teachers include Peter Pereira (great, right?) and the night readings will feature such poets as Anne Waldman and Kim Addonizio. So show up, bring your own popcorn, listen to some writing, watch some otters. All good times.
In other news, while shopping for G’s birthday present (shoes! nice ones!) I ran really hard into a high, sharp-cornered table at Nordstrom, which for some reason was blocking the path (oh, right, there was a sale, so all sides were filled with people.) I hit it so hard it knocked the breath right out of me and made me see stars. Since I have a bleeding disorder (a genetic PAI-1 deficiency, I promise I had it before it was trendy for poets to have blood disorders) this should make for exciting bruise patterns on my right side. First: honestly, what did I ever do to that table? And two, was I always this clumsy? I should really only be allowed to play with children’s scissors and round plastic furniture. Well, that’s it: no string bikinis for me this week!
In still other news: Arizona or San Diego?
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.
Peter
Looking forward to seeing you there Jeannine! I think it is going to be a *fabulous* conference. The weather is going to be perfect, and I can’t wait to try some haibun (it sounds like an elegant pastry, doesn’t it?).
PS: re bleeding disorders: we have Factor V Leiden deficiency in our family. We’ll talk.
Yokel (TKS)
Arizona. My brother’s moving there in January. I’d love to have more peeps there!
Tamara
Felicity
Arizona! I’d like to see the Southwest sometime, and you won’t have forest fire smoke clogging your breathing tubes all summer.
Oliver de la Paz
Centrum sounds like it’ll be a hoot! Have fun, JHG!
Jilly
🙁
Emily Benton
if you’re thinking of moving to teach in Arizona, please specify U. of Arizona or Arizona State before I send out MFA applications again 🙂
Oliver de la Paz
Concur with Emily. Tucson or Phoenix? Both have different vibes.