A slew of pubs to post about:
A review of Kate Greenstreet’s case sensitive up at The Pedestal Magazine’s 39th issue
A review of Becoming the Villainess in the 2007 Rhino (thanks to Mary B for writing it and Martha S. for telling me about it so I could order a copy!)
A new poem, “The Fox-Wife Describes Their Courtship” in the Spring 2007 Columbia Poetry Review (the cover of the Spring issue is amazing. Check it out, art peeps!)
Update: Poetry Southeast has posted their contest winner – and finalists 🙂
And, thanks again to Juliet Patterson, who read wonderfully last night at the Richard Hugo House (not to be confused with the Victor Hugo House, which I believe is in France.)
The rest of April is all rest for me. And yearly doctor and dentist appts. And celebrating my 34th birthday.
And I received Jessica Smith’s Organic Furniture Cellar in the mail. Beautiful!
- At April 23, 2007
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Sharkforum
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Thanks to Simone for letting me know she put a poem of mine up on Sharkforum today!
You guys will be so jealous of me when I tell you who I got listen to yesterday at the poetry festival – Richard Siken, blogger and winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize for Crush. He did a charming reading/talk on spirituality and the self – reading some new work as well as “Crush” poems, which I enjoyed anew. What an interesting and funny guy. He said some accused him of being a “morning after poet.” HA! Here’s my favorite poem from the book, “Poem in Which Things are Crossed Out.”
http://poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177722
Anyway, I know some of you must be tired of seeing me promote readings, but I promise this is the last one for April! (Oh, poetry month, both a blessing and a curse, and full of your muddy shoes!)
Hey Seattlites! Come out to the Richard Hugo House at 7 PM tomorrow to see me reading with Juliet Patterson, who hails from far away Minneapolis who reads her book, Truant Lover, from Nightboat Press, which is pretty cool. Click here to read her “first book interview” with Kate Greenstreet and one of her poems:
http://www.kickingwind.com/62906.html
(In the voice of the guy who sells Monster Truck rallies…)
SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY is POETRY POETRY POETRY
Sure, you could come out to the Seattle Poetry Festival on Saturday for poetry luminaries like Richard Siken and Mary Jo Bang. Or friends like Martha Silano and Peter Pereira. Or to see slam poets go up alongside academic poets like Heather McHugh for the sheer fun of it.
But, if you make it to The Richard Hugo House in Capitol Hill by 11:45-12:15, you get a chance to see me and fellow co-editor of Crab Creek Review, Natasha K. Moni, go old-skool head-to-head with our “bad girls lost in a dark wood”-style poetry. Becoming the Villainess will be available for sale for 30 minutes afterwards while I sign books. After that I will be hanging out as a spectator, catching all the cool poetry action. Don’t miss it!
In good news, look for Mary Biddinger today on Verse Daily!
In other news:
My poor sweetie has been so sick, the doctors think he has ‘walking pneumonia.’ I took him to the hospital for chest x-rays today. He’s on the same antibiotics I was taking last week, and they gave him an albuterol breathing treatment at the dr office. Think good thoughts for his speedy recovery!
Still don’t know where I’ll be living after the end of May, and still interviewing for jobs. I wouldn’t mind some good thoughts in that direction too!
In good news, Smartish Pace, after having a review I’d written since 2005 of David Lehman’s last book, finally published it this week! There’s a link to it on the front page, and here’s a direct link:
http://www.smartishpace.com/home/dynamic.html?reviews_lehman.html
I’m finishing up a review of Ivy Alvarez’ Mortal as well. And I’ve started up a (still, fairly lame and new) blog for Crab Creek Review, whose web site has proved more challenging for me than I expected, due to its programming – a Unix server, old PHP programming, old server-side includes – I’ve programmed web pages with Microsoft technology for so long (um, 15 years?) it’s a shock to my system! I’m not even sure exactly the way to change the price of the subscription because I’m not sure of the code in the order form! And the CSS form looks like something I’ve never seen. I don’t understand having a CSS – I mean, there’s barely any style to the Crab Creek pages right now, why do they need such a complicated style sheet? I could remake the site from scratch, like I don’t already have enough to do…
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.
