Reading Friday Evening at Tacoma’s King’s Books
- At January 10, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Hope to see a few of my Tacoma friends there! Come on out in you’re nearby and say hello!
http://www.kingsbookstore.com/event/poetsjan
7 PM, Friday January 11th at King’s Bookstore
This monthly event features a Distinguished Writer followed by an Open Mic. This month features poet Jeannine Hall Gailey, the Poet Laureate of Redmond, WA. She is the author of Becoming the Villainess (2006) and She Returns to the Floating World (2011). She teaches part-time for National University’s MFA program and volunteers for Crab Creek Review. Following her is an Open Mic, open to all poets, sign-up is at 6:45 pm. Admission is free. The event occurs monthly the second Friday of every month at King’s Books. Sponsored by the Puget Sound Poetry Connection and the Tacoma Arts Commission.
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.
