Strange Horizons, Surviving Poetry, Whiting Awards…
So, I escaped from the teen workshop without any major injuries, though I woke up this morning feeling flu-y again. Guess the cure is just…rest!
If you’re in the mood for science-based poetry, my poem “Tickling the Dragon” about the death of Louis Slotin – who inspired the creation of “Dr. Manhattan” of “The Watchmen” fame – was featured a day or so ago at Strange Horizons:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2011/20111024/gailey-p.shtml
I think I have a psychic link of some sort with the mysterious group that hands the Whiting Awards, because all the writers I thought I’d discovered were then given the award – Ilya Kaminsky, Jericho Brown, Dana Levin, and now…Eduardo Corral. I liked them all before they were famous, as we protest about our favorite indy bands…
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.
