Since I sometimes get e-mails about freelancing, I thought it would be good to post a link to Salon’s “Tips for Freelancers” – supposedly tax tips, but other useful tips as well. Check out the letters, which contain more tips from readers.
It’s NaPoWriMo day 1001. Or at least that’s how it feels.
Yes, watching Kurosowa’s “The Hidden Fortress” and George Lucas’ “Star Wars: A New Hope,” in the same night, was surprisingly fun. And why, you ask, was I available to watch such a marathon? Well, my stupid problems (neck, joint, immune system/connective tissue, etc) were flaring up again, so I was basically stuck flat on my back. After a punishing session with a physical therapist and a chiropractor today, I don’t feel any better. So I was feeling kind of grumpy, healthwise, today, and wrote a grumpy, self-pitying, health-problem-based poem-a-day poem. It’s really just a remix of the themes in this poem. I told Kelli I wasn’t posting my drafts because I wasn’t happy with them, but she told me to post them anyway, so here goes:
They Told Me I Was Special
Poof!
I was supposed to go to a reading on Wednesday for the Wompo Anthology, but as per doctor’s orders, I will be resting my pretty head (neck) instead of partying with my girl-poet friends. Boo.
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.
