poetry mail – Webbish6 https://webbish6.com Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:09:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 44757611 https://webbish6.com/1858/ https://webbish6.com/1858/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:09:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/1858/ I haven’t written anything in a couple of weeks and it’s making me a little…scratchy. I’m not a poem-a-day person, but I like to at least write one every two weeks!

I got two rejections and an acceptance today. After weeks of nothing. Isn’t that always the way.

A poem of mine is out in the new issue of The Cincinnati Review. It’s one of my “element” series, called “Cesium Burns Blue.” It’s one of my husband’s favorite poems. The issue also has poems by Nance Van Winckel, Chase Twichell, and Sherman Alexie.

Speaking of Alexie, he went on The Colbert Report and talked about how the local media doesn’t care about books any more. I don’t know if you noticed, Sherman, but it’s not that they don’t care, it’s that local media doesn’t really exist any more. Little newspapers – and big ones – are drying up and blowing away. Local news and radio shows are getting swallowed up by big conglomerates.
And, tell me what you think, but the local radio shows and newspaper stories don’t really sell books – or not any more than say, a blog or a web site might.

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