Here’s the reading info:

Jeannine Hall Gailey and Tim Green are the featured readers at the Barnes and Nobles at the Grossmont Center in La Mesa. If you’re in the San Deigo area, please come out! Tim will be reading from his new book, American Fractal, and I’ll be reading from my “old” book, Becoming the Villainess, as well as a few from my new “Robot Scientist’s Daughter” series.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Cost: free
Phone: (619) 667-2870
Location: Barnes & Noble–La Mesa (map)
Address:Grossmont Center
5500 Grossmont Ctr Dr, Suite 331
La Mesa, CA

This is only my second real featured San Diego reading, so if you missed the first one, I hope you’ll come out! I get nervous before readings, and even had a reading-oriented anxiety dream (the one where I lose my reading notebook, can’t remember any of my poems, and the audience acts bored. Oh, it’s worse than getting chased by monsters, I tell you!)
Also, both readers might be on crutches (we both sprained our ankles a week or so ago), so there’s more excitement than usual!

I have my first official San Diego reading coming up this Sunday (yes, on Mother’s Day…but after brunch!) and I hope if you’re around, you can come!
Here’s the info:

Sunday, May 10 at 3 PM
Jeannine Hall Gailey and Poet/Musician Peter Bolland
Second Sunday of the Month Poetry Reading Series
Open Door Books
4761 Cass Street in San Diego

I’ve been inundated with grading work this weekend, as well as trying to set up the content of the “Advanced Poetry Workshop” class I’m teaching next month in the online software that the college uses. A lot of work to set up a class from scratch, but I hope it will be worth it! I’m also very behind in sending out poems into the world. I’ve been writing, but not sending out as much.

Got the shiny contributor copies of the 2009 issue of The Evansville Review, which included poems by John Updike and my fellow-Pacific U MFA classmate Joshua Michael Stewart. And me The Evansville Review does beautiful work putting out their journal – thanks, editors!