Reading Report from an Artist’s Reception and a Wonderful New Review
- At October 22, 2011
- By Jeannine Gailey
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Thanks very much to The Pedestal Magazine and critic Michael Adams for a wonderful new review of She Returns to the Floating World
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=20261
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So, I want to come out and say it: artists and art-lovers make for great poetry audiences! Deborah Scott’s wonderful paintings from her show “Waiting for Prince Charming” were in a lovely setting at Georgetown’s All City Coffee (I had seen them in a studio setting, but they were all the more impressive hung together thematically and with good lighting.) I read poems inspired by similar fairy tales – Snow White, Princess and the Pea, Alice in Wonderland – and the crowd, most of whom had never been to a poetry reading before, were kind and attentive (and bought books!) It was probably the most fun I’d had at a poetry reading in a while. Here is a picture of the curator, artist Deborah Scott (with the tiara, appropriately) and me, and other photo of one of the paintings from her Snow White series…
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.
