My Thanksgiving List of Things to Be Grateful For
–Good friends who are there when you need them. And supportive families when you are freaking out about moving and finances and why you became a poet in the first place.
–Baby seals sleeping on the beach. Are they dreaming about swimming?
–Deer in people’s yards, eating blackberry leaves, in the middle of the day for no reason.
–Sunshine in November in the NW – high 45, sunshine all day expected!
–Upcoming Poetry Books to look forward to from people whose poetry you really like (Yay, Suzanne Frischkorn!)
–Pomegranate 7Up – a little too sweet, but you know what? Awesome! And real pomegranates at every market too!
–To everyone who publishes and buys poetry and grant-giving organizations and artist colonies that support poets. Thanks!
–Renting three videos in case the DSL goes out (again!) and not feeling guilty about watching them because it’s a holiday darn it!
–My husband’s cooking Thanksgiving dinner!
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.
