No AWP NYC for me after all…
Just got a phone call from my doc telling me I have a complicated case of strep throat and have to stay home until I’ve been on antibiotics for at least three days. I was all packed and ready and everything. Hair was cut, special travel sizes were bought, paper printed out and ready. I will miss saying hi to you all and all the fun. Waaaah! I should have known something funny was going on when my throat practically swelled shut. That doesn’t usually happen with a cold.
Anyway, have a great time and tell us all about it! Wishing you good health and a great time. I’m getting ready to call and cancel my AWP registration so maybe one of you can catch the opening after all…
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.
