A New Interview at Seattle Wrote, A New Poem at Stone Highway, and a Library Link
- At February 05, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Keeping busy these days, but wanted to let you all know about a few things. I’m expecting the first proof of Unexplained Fevers from Ireland any day now, starting to plan out more spring events, and generally getting overscheduled, but in a good way! Now, onto the news – interviews, a new poem, and a library blog mention!
Here is a link to an interview that the very kind Norelle Done did with me for Seattle Wrote:
http://www.seattlewrote.com/2013/02/seattle-author-womens-themes-in-poetry.html
I give some advice for beginning writers, including:
“Then write as much and as often as you can, and start sending things out to the magazines you like best, whether they’re famous or not. Often you’ll know where to send, because you’ll connect with the poems published in the journals.
My mother’s advice for me when I was a 19-year old optimistic writer sending things out for the first time was to fill a shoebox with rejection slips, and that set up my expectations – there will be a lot more rejection than acceptance. But being a poet is as much about practice and perseverance as inspiration.”
Yes, I’ve been watching Wile E. Coyote, the ultimate engineer, at work for decades, so it seems natural that eventually I wrote a poem for him. Scroll down to page 25 of the Stone Highway issue to see “Introduction to Engineering from Wile E. Coyote, Supergenius:”
http://www.stonehighway.com/issue-22-january-2013.html
And last but not least, a very kind mention of my February 20th reading at Redmond Library is up at the KCLS blog today:
http://redmondlibrary.blogspot.com/2013/02/jeannine-hall-gailey-redmonds-poet.html
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.
