A quick reading announcement:
Blogging Poet Oliver de la Paz is reading in Redmond!
Please join us for a great night of poetry and tell all your friends to come too!
Thursday, August 16 at 7 p.m.
SoulFood Books
15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, WA
Oliver de la Paz and Rick Barot read from their newest poetry collections, followed by open mic. Contact book store at 425-881-5309 for directions.
Oliver de la Paz teaches creative writing at Western Washington University. His work has appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, North American Review, and elsewhere. He has received many grants and awards, including a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. He is a cofounder of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to mentoring Asian American writers. Oliver’s book of prose and verse, Names Above Houses, was a winner of the 2000 Crab Orchard Award Series and was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2001. His second book, Furious Lullaby, will be published in September 2007. Oliver has a Web site at www.oliverdelapaz.com.
Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first book, The Darker Fall, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and was published by Sarabande Books in 2002. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including New England Review, The New Republic, Poetry, and Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has also appeared in many anthologies, including The New Young American Poets, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University. He lives in Tacoma, Washington and teaches both in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and Pacific Lutheran University. His second book, Want, will be published by Sarabande in early 2008.
- At August 10, 2007
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In be like Colbert, sprain sux
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Blogger Break (or sprain?)
I sprained my right wrist and typing is difficult so a few days of no blogging and slow e-mail responses…sorry kiddos I’ll be back soon! (4 Weeks in splint…)
The rest of the world is in a crazy heat wave, while here is rainy off and on and 65-70…that’s the Pacific Northwest for you!
Been stuck in the house, so I’ve been reading a lot, although not well, because the antibiotics (for the aforementioned tonsillitis) make me groggy (finally read Joseph Campbell, which I’ve been meaning to do forever.) And ordered some books online (Margaret Atwood’s I am Happy, a book on mythology and superheroes for a series of classes I’m doing next year for high school students at Centrum, and another anthology of prose poems that I saw with good reviews on Goodreads.)
Worked on the (gulp) third manuscript. Third! The books are piling up here! And I need to start sending out work, I’ve been terrible this summer.
So who are some cool magazines reading this August? Anyone? Beuller?
Spent the most beautiful weekend in bed with a nasty case of tonsillitis. Urgh! Popsicles, soup, more soup, etc…
Check out the lovely and talented Ivy Alvarez’ First Book Interview (TM) by Kate Greenstreet here!
And, if you have a copy of Margaret Atwood’s book of poems, “You Are Happy,” just taking up space, I’d be happy to buy it or trade for it! It’s hard to find here, but Amazon has some used library discards…
Ye Olde New Poet’s Market Report
I buy Poet’s Market every year, probably out of nostalgia, because I bought my first one when I was 18 or 19, and just pored over it, trying to glean some kind of literary knowledge from the pages. (I was a terrible writer then, but I still really wanted to be a writer.) So I bought the new one, and you know what’s freaking me out? The absence of certain literary magazines from the 2008’s Poet’s Market. Not only Crab Creek Review (which has been running consistently for 20 years) which I work for (troubling, but not impossible to understand – the former CC editors, full of turmoil in the turnover, probably didn’t return some form or something) but Redactions, Sentence? Weird. I kept looking for magazines, magazines that I own, subscribe to, submit to, etc, and not finding them anywhere. What are your favorite magazines that didn’t make it in? How hard does Poet’s Market make it to get listed? Is there a secret blacklist or something I don’t know about? I say, make it into a web form process, people at Writer’s Market inc, and you’d probably get more responses.
On the plus side, thanks to Amanda for listing my name among recently published poets (with some very fine company, I might add) for the entry for The Pebble Lake Review. One of my favorite journals that DID make it in.
And there is a good roundtable on blogging at the beginning of the book, including Jilly Dybka, C. Dale Young, Janet Holmes, and Reb Livingston. How’s that for fun?
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.
