Vote Vote Vote! Like a baby Stoat! Goodreads Poetry Book of the Year Semifinals!
Dear readers, this is the time when I beg for your vote!
Because of your write-in votes, She Returns to the Floating World is now in the Goodreads semifinal round for Best Book of Poetry of the Year!
I would very much appreciate it if you would go to this link and vote in the semi-final round for my book! The five finalists are chosen on November 20th!
http://www.goodreads.com/award/choice/2011#56614-Best-Poetry
I have some stiff competition (particularly from friends and mentors Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Dorianne Laux.) It’s a good year for poetry books. If selected, I promise not to raise poetry taxes!
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.
