Rose Red Review feature, Persona Poetry Discussions and LA Review in Redmond!
- At June 22, 2012
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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A kind of mini-preview of my next book, Unexplained Fevers, is up as a feature at the brand new and wonderful Rose Red Review’s summer issue. There is a poem from Unexplained Fevers and a piece of accompanying art by Deborah Scott here and here. (We’re thinking about using Deborah’s “Snow White” piece, the one with my Rapunzel poem, as the cover for our collaborative art/poetry book…what do you think? She has so many good fairy-tale-themed paintings, it’s hard to pick just one!)
Kathleen Kirk has an interesting discussion my essay on Persona Poetry at Escape into Life here, along with Sandy Longhorn’s work…bringing up interesting points about empathy, how one person’s vanilla might not be so vanilla to someone else…
Last night I got to see two LA Review editors read at Soul Food Books, Kelly Davio and Tanya Chernov. They did a wonderful job reading, and I’m so excited to find more poets on my side of town! And LA Review remains as beautiful as ever – a great journal!
I’ve got so much stuff coming up this summer…a special (job-related) announcement coming up July 17th…then I’ll be teaching up at Port Townsend Writers Conference…then doing Geek Girl Con and a reading for Cincinnati Review in August – what happened to the long slow days of summer? And speaking of which, as it’s 59 and raining outside…what happened to summer in general? (Weather report: gray cold rain for six days straight. Okay, Seattle, ha ha. Joke’s over. Let’s bring out that blue sky!)
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.
Kristin
Our summer too is very strange. We’ve had relentless rain–so much for the Sunshine State.
At least the rain and clouds keep us from getting hot, the way the northeast is hot. We’re just sort of tropically steamy.