Reading in Arlington, and more coming!
- At September 12, 2012
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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If you live anywhere near: Bellingham, Arlington, Skagit Valley…I’ll be up your way tomorrow for a reading with Lana Ayers at the FogDog Gallery in Arlington, WA at 7 PM. I like reading at art galleries, so it should be fun!
Thinking about all the readings coming up in the next month (as you can see on my blog reading list at left, they are proliferating – and I haven’t even got them listed on my “event page” yet!) It’s one of those poetry things, readings – you don’t really have any control over how they’re going to go, how many people show up, if you sell any books – you just have to show up and do the best you can, and hope the people who booked you do some publicity (and of course, we can do some of our own publicity, such as it is, too, as discussed in the last post.) For me the challenge is also to stay as healthy, mobile (stupid re-spraining ankles) and as calm as possible (for the immune-system-stuff.) Wish me luck!

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.


