PR for Poets covers, MS Awareness month, and International Women’s Day! (Plus Poems up at Wordgathering)
- At March 08, 2018
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Yes, it’s March, which is MS Awareness month, and today happens to be International Women’s Day, so I felt it was appropriate to post some news. I mean, a lot of folks are at AWP right now, but not everyone! So here are a few poems about MS and some PR for Poets news!
And, for those of you keeping track, I finally have covers (front and back) for the PR for Poets book coming out this spring from Two Sylvias Press! (Ooh, late edition – here’s the pre-order link from Two Sylvias!) Thank you to everyone who contributed to this book as a beta reader, as an interviewee, or just moral support, and of course my two wonderful editors, Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy! (And by the way, if you want me to talk to your class via Skype about this subject, contact me and let me know!) So for those of you waiting, the book should be out soon! My hopes and ambitions for this book are really just to empower more poets to feel confident about doing their best to promote their book and get it into the hands of readers, and not feel guilty/weird about it. Maybe I’ll pitch an AWP panel on it for Portland!
I’ve got a cold today but a lot of my friends and family are locked-in with snow on the East Coast and midwest, so it could be worse. It’s cold and rainy today, but we are supposed to get sunshine (finally) this weekend, so prepare to see some pics of any possible flowers! Remember it’s Daylight Savings Time starting Sunday! That means our sun won’t be setting til almost seven really soon – yippee!
What are you doing for International Women’s Day? Maybe I’ll go on Twitter and talk about some favorite women poets!
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.
Jan Priddy
The new poems are astonishing, overwhelming! You are gilded, gliding, glorious. Thank you for the light you shed.
Jeannine Gailey
Thank you Jan! You are so sweet. Gave me a lilft!
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
I plan to order your book this week, and I love the idea of a panel for AWP. I’ll send you an e-mail with some further thoughts about a possible panel–I noticed some definite holes in the schedule, and I wondered if that meant that if I sent in something that filled the holes I noticed, if I’d be more likely to get acceptance–or did they just not get any good proposals for the topics I’d like to see?
Renee
I’m excited to read your PR book! I’m working on a third collection but I don’t think I ever did a great job promoting my first two books— I need some tips before finishing that third book and preparing it for publication
Jeannine Gailey
Thanks Renee and Kristin! I hope the book will be helpful! And I’ll put up a Q&A on Twitter and here on the blog for questions you might have I might not have covered!