Reading tonight at the Port Townsend Writers Conference
The sun is out once more and the Northwest is ablaze with sunshine, as though we had been swimming through murky depths of cloud for weeks.
Tonight is the final night of the Port Townsend Writers Conference, and the night of my reading with my personal literary heroine, Dorianne Laux. I hope it goes well. I hope people are still awake on the last night of the conference. This is really the first official outing of She Returns to the Floating World, so I hope I perform respectably. Wish me luck! Will report back tomorrow…probably while waiting in the ferry line to come home…
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.
