Tulip Therapy After a Tough Week and Upcoming First Reading for Unexplained Fevers
- At April 25, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Dear Readers,
Now that my passwords are all reset and my mother is safely out of the hospital and recovering, I am able to relax a bit and get back to concentrating on things like poetry, books, etc. Yesterday my husband snuck me out of town and took me up the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, where we had glorious warm sunny weather (for April, a 70 degree sunny day is fairly unusual here, so we had to take advantage of it) and got to see a lot of flowers. Want to see a picture?
Here are three!
See? Isn’t that better that staying home worrying? This was one of the biggest spring-birthday-month rituals – driving out to see the tulips, stopping in our favorite gluten-free bakery and farmer’s market and little bookshops and stores – I missed when I lived in California, so I try to go every year now. Besides, this Windmill picture will probably be the closest I get to Holland!
Now, all you Seattle friends, notice that this Sunday is my first Seattle reading for my third book, Unexplained Fevers, just out from New Binary Press! I’m reading with the esteemed and talented Kelly Davio (pictured below – I’m standing with her book next to the bear) at Open Books, Seattle’s Wallingford-located all-poetry bookstore, at 3 PM. Don’t be late! 
It’s the end of poetry month and I think we should all embrace fun and springtime and all that is good in the world…
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.
