If you just can’t get enough of interviews with me, check out my new interview at Public Republic:
http://www.public-republic.net/i%E2%80%99m-attempting-to-connect-poetry-and-science.php
The interviewer, Bob Baker, really liked the poem “In the Faces of Lichtenstein’s Women” so I put up a recording of it on my sample readings page here in case you are interested:
https://webbish6.com/audio.htm
Plus, my artist friend Michaela Eaves (who did the cover of Becoming the Villainess) is doing her yearly “sketch a day” up on her blog – check it out:
http://corvida.livejournal.com/
Reading Report:
Well, I think Tim Green and I survived last night’s Barnes and Nobles reading, and even sold a few books. Despite the “shoplifting alarm” going off three times during my reading, and several toddlers screaming their heads off during Tim’s, I think the audience was friendly and welcoming and seemed fairly poetry-savvy. So that was nice. And it was good to hear poems from Tim’s book, “American Fractal,” out loud. I noticed we both read some “science-y” stuff, I believe both with combusting elements, which, you know, I’m for. More science in poetry – that’s what the kids today are into, right? LOL. I’m still not at the peak of my physical game, so standing for the reading was kind of painful (see: random foot/ankle injuries over the past few months,) but other than that, I thought it went pretty well.
Multi-Talented Reviewer
The lovely and talented Serena M. Agusto-Cox has posted a review of Becoming the Villainess at her site, Savvy Verse & Wit, here.
She also posted an interview with me here.
And she reviewed my book on Amazon!
So, really, a very hard-working reviewer and interviewer! Thanks Serena!
My focus now: send some poems out, send some book manuscripts out, get healthy, stay healthy.
Right now: Off to physical therapy for a look at my ankle. Then: More grading. I know, you’re saying, that’s too sexy and glamorous a lifestyle, Jeannine. Slow it down! What can I say? The poetry life is a thrill-a-minute.
Jeannine Hall Gailey Interview by Serena Agusto-Cox
Serena Agusto-Cox has been doing interviews with 32 Poems contributors. Thanks Serena and Deb!
You can also read an interview in the same series with Steve Schroeder, and find out what musical taste we have in common!
As an aside, my little brother is now no longer even close to any kind of a hoodlum, but a respectable thirty-something computer whiz.
In case you were wondering, the interview was done a couple months ago – I am totally out of phsyical therapy now and walking on two good feet 🙂 Now, if I could just get rid of this pneumonia…LOL.
Tis the Season…
For interviews? Here’s an interview with me (where we talk about fairy tale influences, Cinderella, and other various and sundry details) posted at the online fairy tale lit site, Les Bonnes Fees:
Interview with Jeannine at Les Bonnes Fees
My interview with Pattiann Rogers for Poets & Writers Magazine is now online!
Here’s the link – and hope you enjoy!
http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_pattiann_rogers
(Leaving nice comments is always appreciated, too!)
Also, this weather anomoly appeared in the sky while I was teaching at Centrum – it’s the result of ice crystals in cirrus clouds:
Verse Daily, Pubs, Bill Gates Sightings…
I just found out one of my poems will be up on Verse Daily this upcoming week, I think on Thursday. (No, I have been corrected – it will be up Friday – also my husband G’s birthday!) Check it out! Yay!
Received the beautiful little pocket of Foursquare on Saturday, with my poem “Anime Girls Consider the Resurrected.” I loved the other poems in it, which means poet-editor Jessica Smith and I must have similarly excellent taste. The only question is – how do I find out which poet wrote which poem? I really liked the prose-poem piece. And what other poetry journal comes in its own convenient and attractive fabric carrying pouch? If only it came with an origami swan…(See last post for joke reference.)
My interview with prolific interviewer-extrordinaire Kate Greenstreet is up at Eclectica Magazine. Also has poems by Michaela (not my illustrater, the poet/blogger Michaela) and other interesting stuff.
Raven Chronicles final print issue, titled “Whimsies” (containing, appropriately enough, one of Jeffery Bahr’s poems) is out at bookstores now – the last, and if I may be bold, best-poetry-edited issue Raven Chronicles ever! (Full disclosure: I was the guest poetry editor of this issue – although most of the editing was done three years ago. A lot of lag time in the publication. ) Seriously, this comedy-filled issue is a lot of fun. It contains poems by Kelli Agodon, Peter Pereira, my fellow Crab Creek editor Natasha Moni, and many other superduperpoets.
Friday I was chilling out in husband-G’s office lobby at Microsoft, had my feet up on the table, playing a little cell-phone video game, when Bill Gates walked within two feet of me. (PS He is very tall. And still very, very geeky.) No security or nothin’. I should totally have hit him up for poetry funds. Five minutes later, as the husband and I strolled across the parking lot, a supervillainy helicopter shoots up over our heads, with aforementioned-almost-richest-man-in-the-world aboard. Geesh, will this billionaire just leave me alone? Quit stalking me already! I get it!
PS This is indeed the best time to visit the Northwest. Today was sunny, seventies, the streams’s water lilies hid baby ducks and the grass baby rabbits, the wind over the water, the youth spoke politely to me in my inquiry after the rabbits, “Yes ma’am, lots of baby rabbits this time of year,” roses and honeysuckle were blooming, and all was well in the world. Yup, nothing wrong with Seattle in the rain, but Seattle in the sun is nearly unbearably beautiful. I spent four hours outside and hated to go in.
PSS The husband and I celebrate our thirteenth wedding anniversary tomorrow on the 9th. Wish us luck on the next 13!
