All News Tuesday

Thanks again for all your help picking out the author photo. The winner was #4. Now you will have to wait to see the final version on the book 🙂

New River’s radio show on Art Internation Radio includes two poems of mine being read by a famous New York theatre actress, Patricia Randell. Here’s what they say:

Our premiere show is Emerging Women Poets: 24 minutes of poetry by Jeannine Hall Gailey, Melissa Range, Darcie Dennigan and Reena Ribalow, read by Patricia Randell, Randell Haynes and Lori Myers. Please check it out by going directly to http://urls.artonair.org/newriver (this show will also be featured on their homepage at www.artonair.org all this week).

My poems are the first ones up, and start around minute one!

Two wonderful new books of poetry just hit the shelves.

Kelli Russell Agodon’s second book, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room has made its debut. Here’s my blurb, so you know what I think of it:

“Agodon’s book is a bright, funny, touching meditation on loss, love, and the power of words. Her genius is in the interweaving of God and Vodka, bees and bras, astronomy and astrology, quotes from Einstein and Dickinson, a world in which gossip rags in checkout lines and Neruda hum in the writer’s mind with equal intensity.”

Jim Brock’s book, Gods & Money, was just released by WordTech Press.

Here’s my blurb for that book:

“Pop culture, poetry, politics, and religion—all subjects that come under scrutiny in James Brock’s book, Gods & Money. With his tongue-in-cheek humor and observant eye, Brock entrances us with his tales of the melancholy romance of soup, the connecting threads between Walt Whitman and the Florida Everglades.”

Also, Steel Toe Books is open for submissions again, this time for books with religious and/or spiritual themes.

In health news, I got a b12 shot yesterday. I run a little low on b12 sometimes, which I had forgotten about (I’m not a vegan or anything!) and luckily the doc checked for it. I’ve been sleeping ten hours a day lately and moving with the alacrity of a turtle, so hopefully this extra vitamin boost will help power me through the parents’ visit, finding an apartment, doing a reading or two in San Francisco in October, moving, and writing two new book reviews. And trying to write a poem a day, sending out subs, and trying to find work. B12 does give you superpowers, right?