My dear friends,
Well, I was getting better from the wrist sprain when I managed to screw up a joint in my shoulder and my old shoulder tendinosis (a degenerative condition where my tendon has holes in it) has reared its ugly head and couldn’t use my neck or shoulder for a few days. I’ve been joking with people that whoever’s been sticking pins in my voodoo doll should really stop now.
I was finally better enough today to stop lying in bed and walk around outside in the sunshine, go grocery shopping, and some other normal-person stuff. Made me feel a lot better.
I got an exciting call about a job interview next week, hopefully something works out there…Looks like I might be busier post-MFA than I expected.
No poetry news in the mail, fall is coming, and my goal is to be healthy…so, endocrinologist, rheumatologist, and physical therapist, bring it on, baby!

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.


