Eye to the Telescope, Indiana Review, burned out cars
I’m happy to announce the new Persona Poetry Issue of the SFPA’s online poetry journal, which I had the honor of guest-editing, Eye to the Telescope.
From my editor’s note: “The two most common complaints I hear about contemporary poetry are that 1. it is boring, and 2. it is too difficult to understand. I’m hoping that you, dear reader, find that these poems will challenge both of those assumptions. We have a Barbie doll speaking from Mars here, Alice from Wonderland going on a date with Frankenstein’s monster. These escapades are accessible, entertaining, dramatic—in short, they make poetry fun.”
So go check it out! Poets include Oliver de la Paz, Kelli Russell Agodon, Celia Lisset Alvarez, Lana H. Ayers, Mary Agner, Kristin Berkey-Abbott – just a host of fabulous poets, some already known to me, some brand new!
In other news of new issues of literary journals, Indiana Review’s new issue is out, called Winter 2011 (although it is already 2012…) which has one of my favorite “Robot Scientist’s Daughter” poems, “The Robot Scientist’s Daughter [in films.]” Possibly because it has killer shrews in it. It’s such a consistently fun journal to read, I’m proud to be a part of it!
I had a dream last night that involved driving a car that was “burned out” from the inside-out. Is this a metaphor for my current state of mind? I would like the metaphor of my life to not be a burned-out car. I think sometimes I get so revved up, only to get let down – I need to learn to use a bit of cruise control in terms of my energy and workloads.
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.
