I'm keeping busy at the beginning of 2013! Check out these Poet Laureate Events During the First Few Weeks of January! Go go go!
At Bellevue Art Museum on January 4, a free "First Friday" at the Museum, I'll be helping celebrate Japanese traditions, and I feel greatly honored to be doing so! I'll be doing a short reading of poems inspired by Japanese folk tales from 4:30-5 PM with an accompanying slide show of custom art for the poems by Michaela Eaves, then doing an hour-long workshop on haiku and haibun. I hope to see you there! Bellevue Art Museum is a wonderful resource and I'm very happy to be working with them! I believe the gift shop there will also be carrying my books the day of the reading, and there will be recordings in the museum of me reading a few of my poems. Cool, right?
At the Redmond Library on January 5th at 3 PM, I'm happy to be hosting a panel on "Multicultural poetry and the language of science" with guest poets Natasha K. Moni and Raul Sanchez. Refreshments will be served and the conversation should be lively!
On January 11th, I'll be heading down to Tacoma to a reading at 7 PM at King's Books. It's a wonderful bookstore if you've never visited, and I always feel like I don't get to see my Tacoma friends often enough. (And the Glass Museum, and the Point Defiance Zoo, and...)
On January 20th, I'll be heading back to Bellevue Arts Museum to do a children's haiku workshop!
I hope you can make it out to at least one of these events. And I'll be reading at the Library on February 20th as part of the "Redmond Reads Poetry" series - I'll be reading all comic-book and fairy-tale poetry !
Where to find out about poetry in Redmond, Washington
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Reading with Hello, the Future at Soul Food and A week of crazy!
In case you're looking for something to do tomorrow night, you know, getting ready to celebrate the Mayan-end-of-the-world solstice and all that, I'm reading all apocalypse and futuristic poetry at 6 PM opening for a band called "Hello the Future" at Soul Food Books Friday.
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/14860894-hello-the-future-at-soulfood-books-and-café
I have had the nuttiest week - my little brother and his wife came in to visit from Thailand, so we took them on a tour of all the fun stuff you can do here in the cold rainy season - wine and beer tasting in Woodinville, sushi dinner and the Sorrento Hotel lounge for cocktails, a pilgrimage to Caffé Vita and helping them catch up on any American things they'd missed (Whole Foods! Book stores! Back episodes of Community and Family Guy! Ah, America...) I also had several poetry events and trying to get everything together for New Binary Press for my third book, "Unexplained Fevers" - copyediting, updating acknowledgements, getting an author photo (hopefully) and working with Michaela Eaves on the cover art. I think I've gotten about seven hours of sleep over the past seven days, which hopefully will be fixed over the weekend. (Along with working on a friend's manuscript, writing my Poet's Market articles, and getting Christmas shopping finished...and Christmas cards, um, started? And responding to all the e-mails I've been ignoring?)
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/14860894-hello-the-future-at-soulfood-books-and-café
I have had the nuttiest week - my little brother and his wife came in to visit from Thailand, so we took them on a tour of all the fun stuff you can do here in the cold rainy season - wine and beer tasting in Woodinville, sushi dinner and the Sorrento Hotel lounge for cocktails, a pilgrimage to Caffé Vita and helping them catch up on any American things they'd missed (Whole Foods! Book stores! Back episodes of Community and Family Guy! Ah, America...) I also had several poetry events and trying to get everything together for New Binary Press for my third book, "Unexplained Fevers" - copyediting, updating acknowledgements, getting an author photo (hopefully) and working with Michaela Eaves on the cover art. I think I've gotten about seven hours of sleep over the past seven days, which hopefully will be fixed over the weekend. (Along with working on a friend's manuscript, writing my Poet's Market articles, and getting Christmas shopping finished...and Christmas cards, um, started? And responding to all the e-mails I've been ignoring?)
Reading with Hello, the Future at Soul Food Books Dec 14
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/14860894-hello-the-future-at-soulfood-books-and-café
I know I said that my last Poet Laureate thing of the year was over, but I was wrong - I'm reading with an indie rock show at Soul Food Books this Friday at 6 PM.
"Redmond Poet Laureate Jeannine Hall Gailey reads poetry and musicians Hello, the Future, Larry Murante, and Michael Clune play."
I'll be reading all futuristic/apocalypse poetry in honor of the upcoming Mayan-predicted-solstice-apocalypse AND the fact that I'm opening for a band called "Hello, The Future." I might break out some poems I haven't read in public before since I've been working on some new work all about the end of the world (or how we imagine it.)
I know I said that my last Poet Laureate thing of the year was over, but I was wrong - I'm reading with an indie rock show at Soul Food Books this Friday at 6 PM.
"Redmond Poet Laureate Jeannine Hall Gailey reads poetry and musicians Hello, the Future, Larry Murante, and Michael Clune play."
I'll be reading all futuristic/apocalypse poetry in honor of the upcoming Mayan-predicted-solstice-apocalypse AND the fact that I'm opening for a band called "Hello, The Future." I might break out some poems I haven't read in public before since I've been working on some new work all about the end of the world (or how we imagine it.)
Friday, December 7, 2012
E-publishing Panel and Happy Holidays
Last night's panel at Redmond Library on Poets and e-publishing, social media and other tech was amazing! Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy dazzled the crowd with their knowledge of e-book publishing, and the crowd was full of intelligent and animated questions about how to publish in the "new world" of e-books.
Here's a shot of Annette and Kelli interacting with two engaged audience members (writer Laura Lee and editor Anne) while I look on in interest:
I appreciate everyone who came out and we'll see you in the new year! Excepting Mayan Apocalypses and such...
A very happy holiday wish to all of you poetry-lovers in Redmond and beyond! I've got some fun plans in the works for this spring, so stay tuned!
Here's a shot of Annette and Kelli interacting with two engaged audience members (writer Laura Lee and editor Anne) while I look on in interest:
A very happy holiday wish to all of you poetry-lovers in Redmond and beyond! I've got some fun plans in the works for this spring, so stay tuned!
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Poetry and Technology Panel - Dec 6th at Redmond Library
Come out to Redmond Library at 7 PM on Thursday, December 6th to a panel on poetry and e-books, social media for poets, and other discussions of poetry and technology, hosted by me, Jeannine Hall Gailey, with two special guests: e-book publishers and editors of Crab Creek Review, Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy. Come with questions. Refreshments will be provided!
Annette Spaulding-Convy is a poet and editor in the Seattle area. Her full length collection, In Broken Latin, was published by the University of Arkansas Press (Fall 2012) as a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, In the Convent We Become Clouds, won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was chosen for the 2011 Jack Straw Writer's Program and is a recipient of the Artist Trust GAP Grant. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review and in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, among others. She is co-editor of the literary journal, Crab Creek Review, and is co-founder and co-editor of Two Sylvias Press, with Kelli Russell Agodon. Two Sylvias has published the first eBook anthology of contemporary women's poetry, Fire On Her Tongue. Annette currently lives in a small community on Puget Sound and is originally from Northern California. http://www.annettespauldingconvy.com
Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (White Pine Press, 2010), Winner of the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Prize in Poetry and a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She is also the author of Small Knots and the chapbook, Geography. Recently she co-edited the first eBook anthology of contemporary women’s poetry, Fire On Her Tongue. Her work has appeared in magazines and journals such as The Atlantic, Prairie Schooner, and North American Review as well as on “The Writer’s Almanac” with Garrison Keillor.
Kelli is the editor of Seattle’s literary journal, Crab Creek Review and the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. She lives in the Northwest where she is a mountain biker, paddleboarder, and kayaker. She is recently completed her third book of poems, Hourglass Museum.
Visit her at www.agodon.com or on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/agodon
She writes about living and writing creatively on her blog, Book of Kells at: www.ofkells.blogspot.com
Photo credits:
Annette's photo by Ronda Broatch
Kelli's photo by Delaney Russell Agodon
Annette Spaulding-Convy is a poet and editor in the Seattle area. Her full length collection, In Broken Latin, was published by the University of Arkansas Press (Fall 2012) as a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, In the Convent We Become Clouds, won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was chosen for the 2011 Jack Straw Writer's Program and is a recipient of the Artist Trust GAP Grant. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review and in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, among others. She is co-editor of the literary journal, Crab Creek Review, and is co-founder and co-editor of Two Sylvias Press, with Kelli Russell Agodon. Two Sylvias has published the first eBook anthology of contemporary women's poetry, Fire On Her Tongue. Annette currently lives in a small community on Puget Sound and is originally from Northern California. http://www.annettespauldingconvy.com
Kelli Russell Agodon is the author of Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (White Pine Press, 2010), Winner of the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Prize in Poetry and a Finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She is also the author of Small Knots and the chapbook, Geography. Recently she co-edited the first eBook anthology of contemporary women’s poetry, Fire On Her Tongue. Her work has appeared in magazines and journals such as The Atlantic, Prairie Schooner, and North American Review as well as on “The Writer’s Almanac” with Garrison Keillor.
Kelli is the editor of Seattle’s literary journal, Crab Creek Review and the co-founder of Two Sylvias Press. She lives in the Northwest where she is a mountain biker, paddleboarder, and kayaker. She is recently completed her third book of poems, Hourglass Museum.
Visit her at www.agodon.com or on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/agodon
She writes about living and writing creatively on her blog, Book of Kells at: www.ofkells.blogspot.com
Photo credits:
Annette's photo by Ronda Broatch
Kelli's photo by Delaney Russell Agodon
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