Video from the Port Townsend Writers Conference
Dear readers, while we are waiting in the horrific long ferry line – the bane of sunny Sunday people trying to get from one side of the water to another – enjoy this video footage of me reading at the Port Townsend Writers Conference. My intro by Dorianne, and the first few lines of the first poem were cut off by my adorable but inexperienced cameraman, husband G. Also, the podium is so big you can hardly see me behind it. I believe it was made for bigger poets than the likes of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSvpKfdURGA
(The poems are: “Postcard from the Suburbs of Seattle to the Suburbs of Tokyo,” “My Little Brother Learns Japanese,” “The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife,” “Anime Girl Delays Adulthood,” and, from my first book, “Wonder Woman Dreams of the Amazon.”)

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.



Sandy Longhorn
Beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing.
Karen J. Weyant
Great Poems! (And love the podium…:)
Jeannine
Thanks Sandy and Karen! Wish I had captured Dorianne’s reading too – she read a bunch a wonderful new stuff!