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At April 21, 2009
By Jeannine Gailey
In Becoming the Villainess reviews, Pen and Cape, poem-a-day
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It’s always fun to find a new review two or so years after your book came out. Here’s a new review of Becoming the Villainess at a site named “Pen and Cape” – a great name for a blog, I wish I’d thought of it:
http://penandcape.com/reviews/review-becoming-the-villainess/
The design of the site is pretty cool too. Thanks, mysterious superhero reviewer! (Note: my book actually came out in 2006, not 2002. But, you know, small detail.)

A haiku for April’s poem-a-day thing, inspired by a 95 degree day yesterday here in SoCal:

palm tree fronds
serrate the hot sky
with jagged green teeth

Wading through the grading of my class today, catching up on work…and of course, I want to write poetry instead!
Sick of your poem-a-day poems yet? Well, I finally got a draft I was happy enough with to post, though, admittedly, I have low standards 🙂 and I am still working on it…

Elemental [poof]

At April 06, 2009
By Jeannine Gailey
In new blogs in the blogroll, poem-a-day, Slumdog Millionaire, the periodic table as inspiration
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Two new additions to the blogroll at left – Victoria Chang is back online – one of the first poetry blogs I ever read – and San Diego poet and Barn Own Review editor Adam Deutsch.
I watched “Slumdog Millionaire” last night and it reminded me very strongly of the comic-book subplot of Blind Assassin where the kids are blinded and become assassins or prostitutes (really, it was the best part of that book) crossed with Quiz Show times gangster movies.
I’m worried my poem-a-day drafts are declining in quality. Really, I’m a poem-every-ten days kind of gal. So I may not inflict them on you, the readers, unless they seem to be up to some level of readability. Is that against the spirit of the experiment?
For those of you interested in the inspirations of the periodic table, in my last two poems, I used uranium again in one and snuck Lithium into another. My husband (a former chemical engineer) suggested Americanium, a radioactive element used in smoke detectors. I just don’t have enough emotional energy directed towards smoke detectors, but I love the name.