Jack Straw Writers, a Redmond Reads Poetry reading, and more!
- At February 19, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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If you are looking for something to do tomorrow night, February 20th, why not join us at the Redmond Library for a reading? The “Redmond Reads Poetry” kicks off its winter event with a reading by…me! I’ll be reading from Becoming the Villainess with a sneak peek of a few poems from my upcoming book, Unexplained Fevers. Refreshments will be provided, and a Q&A session after the reading means you can ask all the questions you like! Books will be available from the library for checkout and for sale!
In other news, the 2013 Jack Straw Writers have been announced! The full list is available here:
http://www.jackstraw.org/programs/writers/WritersForum/index.html
I’m honored to be part of such a great program and a great group!
I’m thinking of putting together a blog post on Book tours: how do you know when to go? Basically, a summing up of what I’ve learned with my last two book tours, plus any advice you’d like to leave in the comments below, like, how you survived your book tour, how many readings you plan to do for your first book, or fifth, etc, and let me know if I can post your advice and name in my next post! This is on my mind because, while I’m doing a ton of local readings for my upcoming book, I haven’t planned much in terms of out-of-town readings yet…Some people report great experiences on the road, and I know I’ve had a few, especially getting to visit with friends, and I almost always have a great time at universities. Other readings have been a mixed bag, and I’m wondering how someone makes up their mind when they’re invited, and what criteria we should use…
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.
