Spent the most beautiful weekend in bed with a nasty case of tonsillitis. Urgh! Popsicles, soup, more soup, etc…
Check out the lovely and talented Ivy Alvarez’ First Book Interview (TM) by Kate Greenstreet here!
And, if you have a copy of Margaret Atwood’s book of poems, “You Are Happy,” just taking up space, I’d be happy to buy it or trade for it! It’s hard to find here, but Amazon has some used library discards…
Never underestimate the restorative power of getting together with good friends. I swear, I feel more like a human being today than I have in weeks! The girls, besides workshopping poems, also threw me a little suprise birthday party, complete with fancy chocolate cake and presents. Very sweet. Also Kelli brought fortune cookies and we all read our fortunes, and mine said: “You will solve difficult problems.” So thanks Kelli, Annette, Jenifer, Janet, Ronda: You guys reminded me that life is more than packing and problems.
Today, my review of Ivy Alvarez’ Mortal and a new review of Becoming the Villainess up at the new issue of Galatea Resurrects. God bless outlets for poetry reviews.
Boxes surround, and I am planning the layout of my new home office. Comcast’s cable has been acting up, and I’m hoping to catch the last episode of Heroes – because we can’t record it with the current conditions, and the cable’s been blanking out at various random intervals. Like me, Comcast apparently stops working when I get stressed out.
C. Dale Young will be in town to read at Open Books, the world’s best poetry-only bookstore, tomorrow night. I’m hoping to make it – you should too!

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.


