Radio Interview with Jim McKeown on KWBU this morning, and Fevers
- At July 25, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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I’m excited that I’ll be doing a radio interview with Jim McKeown on KWBU this morning. Here’s a link to Jim’s blog, and his kind review of Unexplained Fevers.
And here’s a link to where the interview will be, along with a link to a previous feature Jim did:
http://www.kwbu.org/index.php?id=66532
I just hope I don’t sound too stuffy – I’ve had a summer flu for days! We had to cancel yesterday’s Redmond Poet Laureate teen event for lack of RSVPs so trying to fix the logistics of that and trying to schedule a makeup date and venue took a few hours. But it was just as well because by the evening I was feeling so sick I couldn’t even get out of bed, couldn’t eat anything, etc. It’s so weird to get sick in the middle of summer! I guess today after the interview I won’t try to, you know, jetski or climb any mountains.
This reminds me to share with you one of the most interesting tidbits from the Sylvia Plath bio I recently finished, Mad Girl’s Love Song, that illustrates some of the differences between American and British health care, at least in the 1950s; when Sylvia got a sinus infection at Smith, she was put up in the fancy sick bay, given cocaine nasal packs, Penicillin shots, and other such extreme treatments, but when she got to England on her Fullbright and came down with the flu, she was shocked that when she checked herself into Cambridge’s sick services for students that all they gave her was an aspirin. No wonder she got sick so often during her undergrad days! It’s said that in America we overtreat symptoms, and in Europe they undertreat. I guess that was the case back then, anyway. A bonus: here’s Plath reading “Fever 103:”
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.
