AWP 14 Report – Friday and Saturday, Drawn to Marvel, the haul, and other adventures
- At March 02, 2014
- By Jeannine Gailey
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Friday and Saturday Reports from AWP, the haul, and other adventures
The last day of AWP was fun, though it went by in a blur. I did a quick book signing at Minor Arcana. I didn’t get to see half the people I had planned to have coffee with, although I did run into a lot of great folks. I never found the tables for several of my favorite journals and publishers (the book fair was split into two football-field sized halls, and I swear I tried), but everyone at the tables the last day was friendly and chatty the last day as I went around buying and picking up books and lit mags. I wore sequins to keep myself awake! I ran into friends local and far-flung. And a very cute black Pomeranian whose owner let us cuddle him (the dog not the owner.)
- me and Martha Silano
- me and Shanna Compton
- me and Rigoberto Gonzalez
- me with Evan Peterson and Bryan Dietrich at the Minor Arcana table
- puppy
The evening Drawn to Marvel launch event at Raygun Lounge was terrific, I kept hearing people saying “This was the best event at AWP” and “why doesn’t AWP have this kind of thing with their official panels and readings?” Yes, why indeed??? It was a great night to meet people I had been corresponding with for years and lots of new folks – including Tara Betts, whose poetry I knew so well I could have sworn I had met her before! I know they’ll have the complete video of the reading up at some point, but Glenn did a phone recording of my reading of “Female Comic Book Superheroes” if you’re interested – http://youtu.be/Wu5j7BjnorU. There are sequins and a Dalek involved. I would say, after briefly scanning the anthology, it would be a wonderful book to teach to college kids.
- me with Jason McCall
- me with the inimitable Stephen Burt and Evan J. Peterson
- me with contributors Tara Betts, Lisa Cheby, and Angela Howe Decker
Friday after my book-signing at Two Sylvias I took some friends to Open Books and Café Zoka to get real Seattle coffee, and it was great to hang out outside AWP (I recommend an offsite trip with a local every AWP!)
- John and Christine from Open Books, me, Marie Gauthier and Juliana Gray
- Morning after pick- the big haul from #AWP14
Above is also a little pic of some of my haul from AWP, including friends’ new books and lit mags. I parted with probably a grand total of $85 for all this, which I think is pretty great indeed. I’m looking forward to reading everything when I have sanity and sleep again.
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.
