Thanks to some friends who alerted me that a few of my poems are online with Contemporary Haibun Magazine.

And to another friend who alerted me to my presence on a list of finalists here (and the winners haven’t been announced yet – cross your fingers for me!)
http://www.smartishpace.com/home/erskinej/info.html
I’m proud to be on the list with fellow blogger Rachel Dacus.

Been under the weather with that cold/sore throat thing that’s been going around, you know, the combination of the crappy rainy cold windstorms and the usual germs when it turns cold, so I’ve been kind of out of it and not very productive, but I’m looking forward to doing some socializing and such at several readings this week.

The first is the Crab Creek Review new issue debut (the first one that I helped edit!) reading:
http://crabcreek.blogspot.com/2007/10/roots-and-writers-reading-october-23.html
Tuesday at 7 PM at the Richard Hugo House with readers like Oliver de la Paz, Jenifer Lawrence, John Davis and Janet Knox and my former classmate at Pacific University Thea Swanson.

Then, Oliver strikes again at a reading at Open Books with Aimee Nezhukumatathil at 7 Pm on Thursday: http://www.openpoetrybooks.com/calendar/index.html
which should be really fun as well.

Still in Cinci, but got a little news in my e-mail box to share…

A new review of Becoming the Villainess:
http://www.litlist.net/read.php?ID=19

Rattle e-issue features Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Becoming The Villainess:
http://www.rattle.com/eissues/eIssue3.pdf

The 2007 Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (with two poems from BTV, “Becoming the Villainess” and “Persephone and the Prince Meet Over Drinks,” included) is out! Kelly Link, one of the editors, is one of my all-time fave short-story writers, so I’m honored.

Earlier Poetry Readings by Jeannine…Like, 24 Years Earlier…

My parents showed me this newspaper clipping that they had saved from when I won the fifth grade poetry recitation contest at my grade school. I was competing against sixth graders! The key was choosing “Anyone Lives in a Pretty How Town.” E.E. Cummings beats Edgar Allen Poe every time.