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?
Does anyone know where there is a list of book contests/submission dates for second books? If there isn’t one already, I can create one…but I’d love to know if someone already started one…
- At July 31, 2007
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In bloggity biz
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Updating the Blog Roll…
Doesn’t that sound like a delicious muffin or sandwich or something? Blog roll with cheese?
Anyway, check out the new folks on the blog roll like Diane Lockward and Robert Peake and many others…
and if you’d like to be added drop me a note!

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.


