No AWP NYC for me after all…
Just got a phone call from my doc telling me I have a complicated case of strep throat and have to stay home until I’ve been on antibiotics for at least three days. I was all packed and ready and everything. Hair was cut, special travel sizes were bought, paper printed out and ready. I will miss saying hi to you all and all the fun. Waaaah! I should have known something funny was going on when my throat practically swelled shut. That doesn’t usually happen with a cold.
Anyway, have a great time and tell us all about it! Wishing you good health and a great time. I’m getting ready to call and cancel my AWP registration so maybe one of you can catch the opening after all…
After getting better briefly, my tonsillitis has returned – even worse! Argh! If this keeps up I don’t know if I can go to NYC. If I can’t talk? Yikes!
And, the Redmond Post Office is still losing my mail sent to my PO Box and can’t explain to me why. Just returning it to sender “undeliverable.” This means no rejections or acceptances, or book contest notifications. I just sent out about ten e-mail notes to editors who had accepted poems that I probably haven’t received any contributor copies sent in the last three months, either. Three months! And I paid a hundred dollars to have this PO Box during my move, so I’d be sure to get my mail. Urgh! I don’t know what to do about journals I haven’t heard from. Would you recommend trying to contact them, even if it’s only been three months, because of the liklihood that the SASE they sent me was tossed?
- At January 25, 2008
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Is it that time already? Where I’ll be at AWP:
Thursday morning, 10:30-11:45 at the Bookfair at the Steel Toe Books table #436
Signing books with Superstar Steel Toe author Mary Biddinger
Friday morning, 9 AM (early!)
Giving a little Pedagogy on the persona poem at the Poetry Pedagogy Forum
After that? A few readings, some fun times, maybe a museum or two…a trip to SoHo…bookstores…let me know if you’re doing anything fun and you think I should be there! Looking forward to meeting you there!
- At January 25, 2008
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In AWP NYC
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Is it that time already? Where I’ll be at AWP:
Thursday morning, 10:30-11:45 at the Bookfair at the Steel Toe Books table #436
Signing books with Superstar Steel Toe author Mary Biddinger
Friday morning, 9 AM (early!)
Giving a little Pedagogy on the persona poem at the Poetry Pedagogy Forum
After that? A few readings, some fun times, maybe a museum or two…a trip to SoHo…bookstores…let me know if you’re doing anything fun and you think I should be there! Looking forward to meeting you there!
Hey everyone! Thanks for the intriguing discussion in the comments section of my last post. Maybe I’m just too much of a can’t-we-all-just-get-along idealist. As Dorianne Laux said, “Schools are for fish!”
Anyway, I’m neck deep in working on a rush-deadline freelance piece and battling tonsillitis and the below-30 temps (I know, but it’s cold for the Pacific NW!) so instead of making up my own post, I’ll post something from Jilly’s blog, a subject near and dear to my own heart:
“So what’s the deal? Why do the mainstream media hardly ever do articles or reviews about women poets? It is often hard to find ANY article to link to.
Are there more men poets than women poets? (When I got my MFA, the poetry students were mostly women.) Are men poets simply better poets than women poets? More interesting? Better at self-promotion maybe? Do articles in which the subject has a penis make for increased sales or something? Are men poets more likely to get published by a large press? What? Is? The? Deal? Here?”
To comment at her blog, click here! Kelli continues the discussion here.
And, Paul Guest is famous. And not just “poetry” famous. Check it out!
Plus, today, I saw a flock of trumpeter swans. Please post any homemade remedies for tonsillitis in the comments. I cannot take any more antibiotics, seriously, or I’ll turn into a superbug myself.
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.
