So, here I am back in Port Townsend, with not an apartment/condo to my name in San Diego yet. And we’re supposed to be out of here by the end of September. I’m not a person who likes to be unsettled like this, which you might not believe from the evidence of me moving around so much, but it’s very true. So I hope a home rental opportunity of some sort comes to us soon…(Remember, any friends in San Diego’s Northern County, keep your eyes open for me!) Yes, I’m on Craigslist for hours a day already…
It’s hard to concentrate on the poetry world with the new job, new place to live, packing up the house, redoing my web site, etc, but I wanted to post a couple of things:
One is, Kate Greenstreet has interviewed herself for her series of first-book interviews!
The other is quick mini-review of Collin Kelley’s chapbook, After the Poison from Finishing Line Press. (Incidentally, follow that link and you can also pick up Anne Haines’ new chapbook, Breach.) Collin angry, passionate take on Reagan-and-Bush-era politics hits hard and fast, but as you might guess, my favorite two poems were the bitingly funny “Fairy Tale Eating Disorder” (“No food is safe in a fairy tale,/ a single bite enough to stop your heart”) and the persona poem called “Patty Hearst on the Occasion of her Presidential Pardon:”
“Mama’s got her x-ray sunglasses on,
her thought control beehive sending signals,
her noose of pearls ready to lasso me home…”
Update: Check it out – Steve’s getting his first book published! Break out the confetti!
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…
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.
