Where I’ll be the next two weeks:
Midwest Book Tour Extravaganza!!
If you’re in Akron, Ohio or Fredonia, New York, don’t miss these events!
Read about one of them in this cool news story: http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=7136728
(However, don’t be confused: my bio is a little outdated, as I’ve graduated, work for Crab Creek Review instead of Raven Chronicles, etc. )
Tuesday, October 2nd at 7 PM
Fredonia, New York
SUNY Fredonia Campus
202 McEwen Hall
Mary Biddinger and Jeannine Hall Gailey reading and Q&A
(otherwise known as the “Supercool Stone Cold Foxes Steel Toe Reading.” Well, Mary’s pretty foxy and I’ll be reading some poems about fox-wives, so…)
Thursday, October 4th at 5 PM
Akron, Ohio
University of Akron (the Martin Center)
Jeannine Hall Gailey reading (and Q&A)
Thanks Aimee Nez and Mary Biddinger for making these readings possible! And thanks in advance to all who come out!! I will spill gossip and possibly pics after the readings are done.
After the readings, I’ll be visiting family in Cincinnati for a week, so I won’t be blogging or e-mailing as much as usual til after I get back on Oct 14.
Notes…
on Reading
On Goodreads you learn fascinating things. Like that Ron Silliman and I share a love of the book, Bread and Jam for Frances.
On the Poet’s Dilemma Part I: Finances
Trying to figure out how to live a life of balance. How to not obsess about money all the time. How to stay healthy with a body that seems especially susceptible (for whatever reason) to illness and injury, which has pretty much kept me out of the full-time corporate work I did for twelve years. Is moving to a small town a way to escape the escalating costs not just of money, but of time, and stress, living in a wonderful but absurdly overpriced and traffic-choked city? Can we afford to just be poets (doing a little teaching, editing, freelance writing on the side?) Ideally, I think, I would have a part-time job publishing or teaching or managing something arts-related. (This is a hint, universe!) I still want to start up my own book publishing deal, but the monetary costs right now seem overwhelming. Like saving up enough for a house down-payment in a place where even the average small-town home runs about $350K…a distant dream right now. Hopefully not forever. Lately I’ve been doing so much freelance work I haven’t had much time to write or submit. Freelance work is always feast or famine – everyone wants something done right away, or it’s a ghost town.
On Television:
This should probably be on my other blog, but last night’s Family Guy hour-long spoof of Star Wars was so funny I was out of breath. And I can’t wait to see the new Heroes tonight!!!
One more thing:
Go check out this ridiculously beautiful Japanese shampoo commercial, posted on Endicott Studio’s Blog for it’s Rapunzel-esque though absolutely Japanese storyline:
http://endicottstudio.typepad.com/endicott_redux/2007/09/hairy-tale-by-k.html
Slightly Tech-ie Post: Any Recommendations for Online Backup?
Since my old hardrive went bad a few months ago, and I had to deal with a painfully slow home backup system that made it hard to restore my files and impossible to restore programs, I have been looking into better backup solutions. I’m looking at online backup plans like Mozy.com, online hard drive, and others. Anyone have any experience with this?
To make things worse, my new laptop runs Vista Ultimate, which seems to have a bug that does not allow me to run a regular backup to any other computer or thumb drive automatically. Yay for Microsoft (not!) Anybody run into this and have any tips?
Enjoyed Kelli and Ann’s reading last night, especially the part where G and I got to go out to dinner with them beforehand, where one of the readers (can’t tell you who!) threw red wine on the other in a fit of rage. Just kidding. But there was some hilarious (for those of us on the other side of the table, anyway) wine spillage action. I’m going to have to quit being a hostess of the SoulFood Books readings, which I’ll miss, since I’m moving in November.
Got an order for a chapbook last night, and I realized that after I fill that order, I don’t have any more regular (without printing problems) chapbooks left. I’ll have to post the “sold out unless you go through Pudding House” sign on the “Female Comic Book Superheroes” chapbook sale page. I still have some irregular (printing problems) ones I can bring to readings, I think.
Battling a sinus/sore/throaty head cold and, according to my back specialist today, some kind of cervical spine nerve problem. (I’ve been having neck and shoulder pain, and last night during the open mike, my entire right arm went numb.) I am hoping both go away in the next week so I can be healthy and happy for my Ohio/NY mini-tour.
Still trying to figure out where to send “second” book manuscripts (I now have two full-grown ones ready to go.) It seems that all the listed contests are for first books, and after that, good luck! Maybe the Pleiades Press or the Journal/Ohio State?
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.
