My Poem “On Being Told You’re Dying” is Up on Poetry Daily Today!
- At July 25, 2024
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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I couldn’t be happier to say that Poetry Daily has my poem “On Being Told You’re Dying, but Not Quite Believing It” from Flare, Corona up today! I am so thankful as this is the first time ever one of my poems has been run there.
Here is a link and a sneak peek:
On Being Told You’re Dying, but Not Quite Believing It – Poetry Daily (poems.com)


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.



Dave Bonta
PD is my laptop’s homepage, so it was great to open it up on Thursday morning and read your poem Congrats.
Jeannine Gailey
thank you, Dave!