What Are You Doing to Celebrate Poetry Month? I Think I’m Going to Celebrate By Turning 40 and Releasing a New Book!
- At April 08, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Yes, I’ve always liked the coincidence that my birthday happens to be during the arbitrarily-chosen National Month of Poetry but this year it seems particularly apt. Turning 40 seems like one of those birthdays that poets write poems about.
So what am I doing during poetry month (and beyond?) Well, I’ve already attended a small press book fair, read for the City Council, and taught a teen poetry workshop, and that was just in the first week! Here’s my upcoming stuff:
1. Well, you may have heard that I just released a little third book of poetry called “Unexplained Fevers,” and so, am involved in sending out book cards, setting up readings, sending out review copies, etc. (Buy it here, here, or here!)
2. Going over to Bainbridge Island’s Field’s End on April 16 to talk about how to build a poetry community, or more specifically, how I’ve tried to build a poetry community in Redmond over the past year’s work as Redmond’s Poet Laureate.
3. On April 17th, I’ll be participating in Google Hangout’s National Poetry Month Poetry Hangout with several other wonderful poets at 7 PM Eastern. Tune in to see if my internet connection holds or if I look terrible on web cam! (Hint: You’ll have to install Google Hangout stuff first, so check it out beforehand.)
4. Signing up for a Goodreads Giveaway and the Great Poetry Giveaway (see an upcoming post for more details.)
5. On April 28th at 3 PM, teaming up with Kelly Davio for my debut Seattle reading at Open Books for Unexplained Fevers. It should be, if I can borrow an overused term, totally epic!
6. On the final day of April, I will be out of my thirties officially! Before then, I hope for one last chance to visit Skagit Valley’s Tulip Festival (which runs all of April) and maybe change my hair radically, wear a really short skirt, and other last-minute-saying-goodbye-to-my-thirties hi-jinks!
