Happy Cinco de Mayo! We are celebrating with Glenn’s delicious homemade flan.

I have my first official San Diego reading coming up this Sunday (yes, on Mother’s Day…but after brunch!) and I hope if you’re around, you can come!
Here’s the info:

Sunday, May 10 at 3 PM
Jeannine Hall Gailey and Poet/Musician Peter Bolland
Second Sunday of the Month Poetry Reading Series
Open Door Books
4761 Cass Street in San Diego

I’ve been inundated with grading work this weekend, as well as trying to set up the content of the “Advanced Poetry Workshop” class I’m teaching next month in the online software that the college uses. A lot of work to set up a class from scratch, but I hope it will be worth it! I’m also very behind in sending out poems into the world. I’ve been writing, but not sending out as much.

Got the shiny contributor copies of the 2009 issue of The Evansville Review, which included poems by John Updike and my fellow-Pacific U MFA classmate Joshua Michael Stewart. And me 🙂 The Evansville Review does beautiful work putting out their journal – thanks, editors!