Reading Futuristic Poetry with Hello the Future and a Week of Crazy
- At December 13, 2012
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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In case you’re looking for something to do tomorrow night, you know, getting ready to celebrate the Mayan-end-of-the-world solstice and all that, I’m reading all apocalypse and futuristic poetry at 6 PM opening for a band called “Hello the Future” at Soul Food Books Friday.
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/14860894-hello-the-future-at-soulfood-books-and-café
I have had the nuttiest week – my little brother and his wife came in to visit from Thailand, so we took them on a tour of all the fun stuff you can do here in the cold rainy season – wine and beer tasting in Woodinville, sushi dinner and the Sorrento Hotel lounge for cocktails, a pilgrimage to Caffé Vita and helping them catch up on any American things they’d missed (Whole Foods! Book stores! Back episodes of Community and Family Guy! Ah, America…) I also had several poetry events and was trying to get everything together for New Binary Press for my third book, “Unexplained Fevers” – copyediting, updating acknowledgements, getting an author photo (hopefully) and working with Michaela Eaves on the cover art. I think I’ve gotten about seven hours of sleep over the past seven days, which hopefully will be fixed over the weekend. (Along with working on a friend’s manuscript, writing my Poet’s Market articles, and getting Christmas shopping finished…and Christmas cards, um, started? And responding to all the e-mails I’ve been ignoring?)
Oh yes, and don’t forget She Returns to the Floating World is going out of print at the end of the year with Kitsune Books’ close, so buy it now on Kindle or print! Great for holiday gifts for your anime-and-Japanese-folk-tale-loving friends!
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.
