jeannine Hall gailey second book – Webbish6 https://webbish6.com Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:05:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 44757611 The haibun on Ploughshares (and a poem from my second book!) https://webbish6.com/the-haibun-on-ploughshares-and-a-poem-from-my-second-book-2/ https://webbish6.com/the-haibun-on-ploughshares-and-a-poem-from-my-second-book-2/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:05:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/the-haibun-on-ploughshares-and-a-poem-from-my-second-book-2/ I’m in love with a Japanese poetry form called the haibun. I teach it in my poetry class at National, I’ve taught it at poetry conferences, and if you’re around long enough, I’ll probably try to get you to write one.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil has a wonderful post covering the basics of haibun on the Plougshares blog and kindly used one of the poems, “The Fox-Wife Describes Her Courtship,” from my upcoming second book from Kitsune Books, She Returns to the Floating World, as an example. Thanks for the shout out, Aimee! I appreciate it and I’m glad to have more props for this very cool (and surprisingly contemporary-feeling despite its ancient origins) poetic form. When can we make an awesome haibun anthology?

Confession: I’ve never been much for a rhyme scheme but somehow syllable counts don’t bother me. Another confession: if you read through my second book and pay close attention, you’ll notice a lot of the poems are in syllabic forms. Am I becoming a secret semi-formalist? The answer: no, probably not.

]]> https://webbish6.com/the-haibun-on-ploughshares-and-a-poem-from-my-second-book-2/feed/ 4 1795 Kitsune Books – She Returns to the Floating World https://webbish6.com/kitsune-books-she-returns-to-the-floating-world-2/ https://webbish6.com/kitsune-books-she-returns-to-the-floating-world-2/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:05:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/kitsune-books-she-returns-to-the-floating-world-2/ So, since my new publisher just tweeted about it, I guess I can make the news official:

Kitsune Books, a wonderful publisher down in Florida of all kinds of speculative lit, has decided to accept my Japanese-folk-tale-and-anime-themed manuscript, She Returns to the Floating World, for publication (tentative publication date – late 2011!)

I am so excited to be working with them and to have a new book on the horizon! Second book second book second book!!! Thanks to everyone who has read it for me and kept encouraging me along the last few years.

Also, thanks for Valerie Loveland for her kind review of my first book, Becoming the Villainess, here.

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