How is your April going? Are you doing anything fun for poetry month?
Tomorrow I’m going to the Agitprop poetry reading, and I’m excited. The only question: what kind of outfit goes with black-velcro-walking-boot casts? And I’ve made reservations – I’m going to the LA Festival of Books later this month. It’s a few days before my birthday, so I’m going to celebrate by visiting Santa Monica and other favorite LA spots along with the book festival.
Allrighty, today’s poem-a-day poem…[poof!]
- At April 01, 2009
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In NaPoWriMo drafts, poem-a-day
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Poem-a-Day
These drafts will disappear, get them while they’re hot!
[Poof!]
Are you considering writing a poem a day during April? The Poetic Asides blog sponsors the Poem-a-Day challenge, where you follow prompts and leave your poem-of-the-day in the comments. Poems are then chosen by judges to be included in an e-anthology; judges include Dorianne Laux, Nick Flynn, Mark Doty, Aimee Nezhukumatathil…and me, among others.
Check it out here!
It starts on April 1, and runs through my birthday, April 30.
And will I be doing a poem a day, during April, during which I teach an online workshop for National University, have a visit with my mom (who’s coming in town to present a paper at an academic conference,) hopefully get down to the LA Festival of Books, and generally have a packed schedule? Well, I’ll try. My current plan is to do poems based on the periodic table of elements. Good times.
The sun in shining, I’m finally feeling better thanks to a plethora of drugs, and even got three batches of poetry into the mail today. Plus, I wrangled with a difficult long poem I’m trying to write.
My new Intro to Poetry workshop with National University starts in a week. I’m excited this time, and less nervous.
The Cortland Review’s April issue is up!
Check out a certain poet on the left-hand column who is happy to be sharing space with Dorianne Laux, Brian Turner, Michelle Bitting, and many other fab writers.
(PS This is my first poem from my “Robot Scientist’s Daughter” series to be published, so I’m doubly excited.)
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.
