Atticus Review Feature, and I’ve Been Tumblr’d!
- At June 05, 2012
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Thanks to the Atticus Review, who today is featuring an interview with me and several fresh brand new poems! (Including one inspired by Secret Circle, and another inspired by Algebra!) Check it out!
Tumblr! What is it? I’m still not quite sure. However, I know that right now, poems from my first book have been Tumblr-ing around the internet, and I wasn’t sure if this was important or alarming or what til my friend Ivy Alvarez, dynamite, plugged-in poet that she is, twittered me this morning with this message: “Wow, your poem was blogged on Hello, Tailor! Gurl, that’s major! 🙂 http://hellotailor.tumblr.com/post/24411614478/vega-ofthe-lyre-the-villainess-by-jeannine-hall”
Thanks to Ivy for alerting me to this, and for telling me some more about tumblr. Are you guys using this tool? Has it been good for poetry? Please comment and tell me your thoughts!
I will say this? Since my Tumblr flurry (poems up include, from the first book, “Femme Fatale,” “The Villainess,” “Becoming the Villainess,” and a couple of others…) my Amazon ranks for both books have gone inexplicably under 100K. Which is always good!
My second (and upcoming third) book’s publisher, Kitsune Books, is having Open Submissions right now. You should check them out and think about sending your manuscript. But remember, they like longer poetry books!
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.
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Pam
Hi Jeannine, I’ve been reading and enjoying your blog quietly for a few years. So I have a question about Kitsune Books submissions. The guidelines suggest 100 pages of MS for poetry. Do you know if they’d accept fewer pages. I have about 70-80 or so. And I like their publications…a really interesting range. But I’m concerned about that 100 pages! And don’t want to send in an MS if they’re very strict about the page thing.
Thanks for the guidance! best, Pam Hart
Jeannine
Dear Pam,
Yes, they really mean 100 pages. When I sent them my second book, it was less than 100 pages, but they worked with me until I got it to that length. I suggest playing around with page breaks, shorter poems, section headers, etc. We’re not used to working with that kind of length as poets, but it leads to some interesting artistic choices…maybe being a little bit more brace with space and inclusion that we’re used to, trying to keep our manuscripts to fifty-sixty pages for the usual contests. It’s definitely worth sending to them! Take care, Jeannine
Pam
Thanks! I’ll see what I’m able to do to stretch. I’m definitely not used to thinking this BIG so that challenge could be interesting/fruitful.