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Jeannine Hall Gailey

@webbish6.bsky.social

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I'm a writer with multiple sclerosis and the author of six books of poetry, including Field Guide to the End of the World and Flare, Corona and two books of non-fiction, including PR for Poets. I live in the Pacific Northwest.

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Nov 10

My latest book, Flare, Corona, from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award.

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 4d

On the blog this week: October Trip to Skagit, Application Anxieties and the Mid-Career Writer and Reading Early Cyberpunk: webbish6.com/october-trip... #cyberpunk #midcareerwriter #skagitvalley

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, and sorry, class of 91. I would argue this is why I became a feminist. My little brother had a freshman English professor who assigned all female curriculum, and reading his curriculum was an enlightenment.

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 9d

Books I was assigned in junior high and high school by women: Awakenings by Kate Chopin. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. No Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, or Brontes. When I asked to do a book report on Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, I was told that was "bodice ripping trash" and not allowed. Cool.

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 10d

This is why I'm considered a serious literary critic, btw.

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 10d

Didn't Diane Seuss say "pee" in "Song of my Heart?" I say go for it!

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you for including me in this write-up, Dave. I always enjoy reading, and for this reason: listening to other poet's voices gives me hope.

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 12d

On the blog this week: Happy Fall, Pumpkin Season, Early Sunsets, Supermoons, Health Stuff and Missed Opportunities: Finding Balance: webbish6.com/happy-fall-p... #pumpkins #supermoons #balance #happyfall

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks for including me, Dave. Good questions being asked this week.

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 26d

On the blog this week; Happy Fall! Solarpunk Poetry Talk, Judging Poetry Contests. Pumpkin Patches, How Much to Adventure and Hummingbirds! webbish6.com/happy-fall-s... #solarpunk #poetry #pumpkinpatch #hummingbird #happyfall

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 26d

Thanks to the @poetryfoundation.bsky.social for giving this piece about my friend Marty Silano, a wonderful poet who passed away a few months ago, a home. We miss you, Marty. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/172...

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · 29d

I would argue Charlotte Bronte walked so Daphne du Maurier could run.

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Sep 18

I just did an algorithm experiment on Facebook. I just put up a mildly political post about free speech, and then posted a poem right after. Which will get more engagement? Sigh.

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Sep 15

On the blog: A Tough Week with Bright Spots: Celebrating Poets, Fall Feels and Surprise Cherry Blossoms: webbish6.com/a-tough-week... #fallfeels #celebratingpoets #surpriseblossoms #pacificnorthwestpoets

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Sep 15

Thank you for the shoutout!

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · Sep 13

From @webbish6.bsky.social s book Flare, Corona: bookshop.org/a/862/9781950774920

#poem #books #writing

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Sep 13

Well, that's sort of ableist, isnt't it? Just "don't go?"

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Sep 10

I will bring up (as someone who was a wheelchair user for some time) that public transport is hard for disabled folks. Driving- and handicapped parking - make navigating the world easier for us.

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks for including me, Dave. It seems like a time full of strange augury. Happy September and Lunar eclipse!

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained.

As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Sep 1

On the blog this week: Happy September and Last Days of Lavender and Hot Air Balloons, Judging Poetry Contests and Preparing for Fall: webbish6.com/happy-septem... #lavender #hotairballoons #poetrycontests #fall

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Darby Lyons @darbylyons.bsky.social · Jul 27

#PoetryMoment
“On Being Told You’re Dying, but Not Quite Believing It”
by Jeannine Hall Gailey
from Flare, Corona
BOA Editions, 2023

On Being Told You're Dying, but Not Quite Believing It

Jeannine Hall Gailey

Because around you, the mortal world is always dying, that banana you left behind at breakfast and that calf

you just saw mooing for its mother in the pasture. Oh, vaccines and antibiotics and moisturizers can only hold

death at bay for so long, its breath on us a push towards the door. Grab your coat, death says, get ready for adventure!

Let's play a game in which no one ever dies, all serene and ageless-a universe of unicorns, dynamic as glass,

impossible to impassion. After all, angels have no investment in the living, in the dirty nature of breeding and birth,

in our grubby hands clutching at the soil from beginning to end, as if to stay a little longer. You remember volunteering

in the Children's Hospital ward, little faces as sunny and smiling towards death as they were towards popsicles, or a new set of crayons,

while their parents looked on, afraid and weepy. And anyway, is there any way really to prepare for that goodbye,

to send your body...elsewhere, to break down quietly? We can choose to time our sorrow. I believe in today, this apple that isn't quite ripe yet,

this poem that isn't finished, a bed rumpled with my husband's still sleeping form, my lungs still breathing, my fingers still on this page.

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Aug 26

On the blog this week: Parent's Visit (Part II) and Sibling Visit, Getting Sick Under Stress, and NEA Grants to Writers and Artists Cancelled: webbish6.com/parents-visi...
#parentalvisits #siblingvisits #NEAcancelsgrantstoartistsandwriters #bobscornandpumpkinfarm

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks Dave!

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Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Aug 18

On the blog this week: Parental Visits, End of Summer Flower Farms, and August Birds: webbish6.com/parental-vis... #birds #flowerfarms #parents

Jeannine Hall Gailey @webbish6.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you for including me, and it was nice to read that other people were doubting and struggling - I mean, I don't want other people to struggle, but it makes me feel less alone in my questions.

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