Updated: I had two nice poetry world things happen today that caused me to rethink my grumpy post, so I decided to delete the evidence of grumpiness. For those of you who missed it, sorry!
PS You should still read Celia’s excellent post, I am a Feminist poet, here. I think all that stuff still applies.
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.
Celia Lisset Alvarez
Villainess is an excellent feminist manifesto, as is She Returns. I’d say you’ve done your job. What we need are more feminist critics–men or women willing to write about women’s artistic output with the intent to–once again–decentralize the male perspective as the only source of aesthetic and cultural value. Women are writing wonderful words. What we are missing is activism.
mariegauthier
Well dang it, that’s what I get for being behind. Glad nice things happened, though!
Karen J. Weyant
Oh, I don’t know…grump fests are sometimes needed! Yay for the good news!