A few cheerful January bits of news!
Had a couple of good bits of news today, the first of which was a really nice surprise to wake up to –
Prairie Schooner had one of my poems, “Knoxville, 1979” as their featured poem today:
http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/?q=knoxville-1979
It’s part of my “The Robot Scientist’s Daughter” manuscript, so that’s always a bonus. Did I mention that “prairie” is one of those words that my dyslexia makes really difficult for me to type?
And, my review of Steve Fellner’s The Weary World Rejoices went up on The Rumpus!
I had my first acceptance of the year this morning, and sent off a new project to a trusted adviser. I’m banging on my writing samples for these two grant proposals, and then off they will go! A little snow, flu, and other such petty discouragements can’t keep me down…well, not for long.
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.
Sandy Longhorn
Nice poem and so thankful to Prairie Schooner for sharing it online.
Good luck with the poems / grants!
Kathleen
Congrats on all this, and so glad to see that poem!
Mary Alexandra Agner
Evocative description of peanuts there, Jeannine, thanks. And thanks for reminding me of all the times I ate onion grass 🙂
Collin Kelley
Love the Knoxville poem. I have a poem called Knoxville, 1982 in my new manuscript, so I love the synchronicity there. 🙂
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Thanks Sandy! Still working away!
Kathleen and Mary – thank you!
Collin – we just have great minds that think alike!