Little Bits: The Skagit River Poetry Festival, Strange Horizons, A Rumpus Review, a cold that will not die
- At January 07, 2014
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Well, I’ve had several little bits of news since I last posted, and some of them are pretty exciting!
I’m very honored to have joined the featured poets at the Skagit River Poetry Festival this May (tickets on sale now!) as I was lucky enough to be a runner-up in their poetry contest! I always love the Skagit Poetry Festival, but I have several more reasons to be excited now, and I have a couple of friends (Kelly Davio, Susan Rich, Rachel Rose, and Oliver de la Paz, among others) who will also be featured poets. It will be really fun and I’m now already looking past AWP to springtime in La Conner!
Another little bit is that thanks to Lesley Wheeler Unexplained Fevers was one of the few poetry books mentioned in Strange Horizons’ roundup of books in 2013. Sally Rosen Kindred is among the august company there as well. Thanks, Strange Horizons and Lesley Wheeler!
And my review of Special Powers and Abilities by Raymond McDaniel is up on The Rumpus! You should especially check out the review if you’re a fan of comic-book poetry. Which some of you must be, right?
In other news, I’ve been fighting off a cold for what feels like forever (is really only a week, but I feel like saying “for all of 2014!) Which has really slowed down my brain power, unfortunate as I am coming up on several deadlines, one for a fellowship application and another for an article on how to publicize your book of poetry without alienating your friends. (Any tips on this? Leave them in the comments and I may quote you in the article!) This article will be full of reminders for me as I come up on AWP on how not to be obnoxious. I will try not to annoy people by trying to promote my books, but I will be hanging around several publishers’ book fair sites for book signings and be at a couple of offsite readings, etc, which will give me a chance to say hi to some of you all in person! The second edition of She Returns to the Floating World with new internal art work by Michaela Eaves should be out in print by then from Two Sylvias Press, which is pretty exciting! So, all in all, for 2014 I’m feeling sneezy, tired (sleeping all day) and not totally physically or mentally sharp but grateful for all this good poetry news. Hope your 2014 is going well!
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.
