Summer Manuscript Class – Sign Up Now!
Are you trying to put together a first collection of poems, or is your book manuscript languishing in a drawer? Do you need some feedback? Are you ready to spend some time and energy getting it into shape for the fall submission deadlines?
Then sign up for my poetry manuscript summer class, eight weeks for $250, where I’ll give you my feedback on your poetry book manuscript, plus you’ll get feedback from your classmates (and I have some great poets signed up already.) We’ll have weekly sessions with discussions and exercises on subjects like organization, theme, tone, and, of course, we’ll talk about publishing. We’ll even have visiting guests to provide advice and encouragement. Send me an e-mail at Jeannine.gailey@live.com. I’m looking to start the class July 1, and I only have space for one or two more poets!
Notes from the Northwest
Two spots still available for my manuscript summer camp session, so if you’re interested in getting some feedback on your manuscript this summer before you send out to the contests this fall, or are just putting it together for the first time and need some guidance, this is a great opportunity to let me know! I’ll be doing full manuscript critiques, and the other members of the class will be sharing their own work and their feedback as well. I’m hoping to have a place where we can talk about organization, structure, individual poems, publication opportunties, the whole nine yards. (Something that doesn’t happen often enough for poets, I think.) Starting July 1!
My first road trip up from wine country in California to coffee country in the Northwest, a great drive. Got to see Lake Shasta, the beautiful whitewater rivers winding through evergreen forests, astounding Mt. Shasta, a hugely tall volcano, completely snow covered, that the road passes closely around, and stopped the night in Ashland, Oregon, home to a big Shakespeare festival (and many little motels.) Yesterday we got to spend a sunny summer-feeling day in Seattle, having brunch with good friends (and Crab Creek editors) Kelli R. Agodon and Annette Spaudling-Convy, going to Woodland Park Zoo to see the new meerkat exhibit (more enclosed than San Diego Zoo’s, for the obvious rainy-and-cold climate reasons) and just generally enjoying the downtown area. Being back is wonderful, though we are supposed to have some rain coming up this week. Well, almost everything (zoo excluded) you probably want to do in Seattle is indoors anyway. Husband G will be at the office all day all week and I’ll be stuck in an East-side hotel room without a car, so I’m going to try to get some reviewing and other (paying) work done as well as some poetry revisions. Looking forward to seeing my MFA buddies at the reunion on Friday in Forest Grove, Oregon – and hanging around Portland for a day at the end of the week. I punctuate my visits to cities by bookstore – Open Books on Wednesday, Powell’s on Friday.
A week of blue herons instead of egrets, water and mountains instead of vines and rolling hills.
