Supervillainesses, Media Appearances All Over the World, and Other Distractions
- At April 21, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Hello, dear readers! It’s been a tough month. And I’m turning 40 in a week. I’m hoping the rest of the month goes, you know, better? With slightly fewer horrible occurrences? Is that possible, universe-controlling being(s)?
So, to entertain and distract you, some links! There will a poem by me about a supervillainess (Poison Ivy) up at Barrelhouse, a roundtable with editor Robert Brewer and poets Mary Biddinger, Nate Pritts, and Aaron Belz you can watch on YouTube, an article in the Bainbridge Island Review about building community and that coincidentally discusses Garrison Keillor and some other fun stuff, and a review of the anthology Eastern Heathens in a Singapore newspaper that mentions me too! So see? Lots of good distraction!
Also, two days before that aforementioned birthday, on the 28th of April, I’ll be reading at Seattle’s Poetry-only bookstore, Open Books, with poet and editor Kelly Davio at 3 PM! Read more here. Join us as we read poems about fairy tale heroines going berserk, electromagnetism, and more from our books, Unexplained Fevers and Burn This House – an afternoon of super-exciting, girls-on-fire type poetry. Yes, that’s right – if that trailer from Catching Fire where Katniss stares straight at that guard attacking Gale and says “Go Ahead” all bad-ass is your kind of thing – you’ll probably enjoy this. You know, if you also enjoy poetry. (By the way, how awesome is it that Philip Seymour Hoffman is playing Heavensbee? Exactly right casting.) Okay, all you non-Hunger Games fans can go back to thinking about poetry again.
Next post? The top five things a person about to graduate from their MFA program needs to know. Any tips? Put them in the comments!
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.
