PR for Poets by Jeannine Hall Gailey (Summer 2018)

Join us for our summer 2018 tour for Jeannine Hall Gailey’s PR for Poets: A Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing, published by Two Sylvias Press in March 2018.

PR For Poets provides the information you need in order to get your book into the right hands and into the worlds of social media and old media, librarians and booksellers, and readers. PR For Poets will empower you to do what you can to connect your poetry book with its audience!

About the Poet:

Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She is the author of five books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter and, Field Guide to the End of the World, the winner of the Moon City Press Book Award and the SFPA’s Elgin Award. She also wrote a non-fiction book called PR for Poets to help poets trying to promote their books. Her poems have been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac and on Verse Daily; two were included in 2007’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She was awarded a 2007 and 2011 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize for Poetry and a 2007 Washington State Artist Trust GAP grant. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and Prairie Schooner.

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Blog Tour Schedule:

May 31: Savvy Verse & Wit (Review)
June 5: Savvy Verse & Wit (Guest Post)
June 7: Diary of an Eccentric (Guest Post)
June 13: The Soapy Violinist (Review)
June 25: Suko’s Notebook (Review)
June 26: The Book Connection (Spotlight)
July 2: The Book Connection (Review)

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Field Guide to the End of the World by Jeannine Hall Gailey Blog Tour (Fall 2016)

Hello everyone, we’ve got a new tour filling up for Fall 2016: Field Guide to the End of the World by Jeannine Hall Gailey, published by Moon City Press in September 2016.

Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the 2015 Moon City Poetry Award, delivers a whimsical look at our culture’s obsession with apocalypse as well as a thoughtful reflection on our resources in the face of disasters both large and small, personal and public. Pop-culture characters—from Martha Stewart and Wile E. Coyote to zombie strippers and teen vampires—deliver humorous but insightful commentary on survival and resilience through poems that span imagined scenarios that are not entirely beyond the realm of possibility. The characters face their apocalypses in numerous ways, from strapping on rollerblades and swearing to taking notes as barns burn on the horizon. At the end of the world, the most valuable resource is human connection—someone holding our hands, reminding us “we are miraculous.”

Advance Praise:

“Wry, heartsick and shot through with black humor (Martha Stewart’s ‘Guide to Apocalypse Living’ dispenses advice on ‘storing munitions in attractive wicker boxes’), these poems about transformation and extinction mournfully remind us via post-apocalypse postcards, notes and instructions, ‘we were not here first, we will not be here last.” —Matthea Harvey, author of If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?

About the Poet:

Jeannine Hall Gailey served as second poet laureate of Redmond, Washington. She’s the author of four previous books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, and The Robot Scientist’s Daughter. Her work has been featured on Verse Daily and NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, and included in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

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Tour Schedule:

Sept. 19: Necromancy Never Pays (Review)
Sept. 27: Eva Lucia Reviews (Review)
Sept. 27: Peeking Between the Pages (Review)
Sept. 29: Chick With Books (Review)
Sept. 30: Suko’s Notebook (Review)
Oct. 11: 5 Minutes for Books (Review)
Oct. 14: Everything Distils Into Reading (Review)
Oct. 19: Readaholic Zone (Review)
Oct. 20: Tea Leaves (Review)
TBD: The Book Tree (Review)

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The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey Blog Tour April 1-30

Hello everyone, we’ve got a new tour filling up for April 2015. The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey, a collection of poems published in March 2015 by Mayapple Press.

Dazzling in its descriptions of a natural world imperiled by the hidden dangers of our nuclear past, this book presents a girl in search of the secrets of survival. In The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey creates for us a world of radioactive wasps, cesium in the sunflowers, and robotic daughters. She conjures the intricate menace of the nuclear family and nuclear history, juxtaposing surreal cyborgs and mad scientists from fifties horror flicks with languid scenes of rural childhood. Mining her experience growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the writer allows the stories of the creation of the first atomic bomb, the unintended consequences of scientific discovery, and building nests for birds in the crooks of maple trees to weave together a reality at once terrifying and beautiful. The Robot Scientist’s Daughter reveals the underside of the Manhattan Project from a personal angle, and charts a woman’s – and America’s – journey towards reinvention.

What others are saying about The Robot Scientist’s Daughter:

The artificial light of radiation and the light of poetic artifice; the real memory of a childhood among inventions in a nuclear hot spot and the cybernetic hyper memories of fictional antiheroes and heroines; the elements, and the elements of style; the present day, the near future, and the futures that never were– you can find them all in these pellucid and memorable poems, in which Jeannine Hall Gailey becomes a storyteller, a creator, a rebel, an educator, and a heroine of her own. –Stephen Burt In The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey charts the dangerous secrets in family as well as a nuclear research facility. Her ecofeminist approach to the making of bombs, celebrates our fragile natural world. Full of flowers and computers, this riveting poetry captures the undeniable compromises and complexities of our times. –Denise Duhamel THE ROBOT SCIENTIST’s DAUGHTER gives us a magnificient voice who is at turns “happy with the apple blossoms,” and yet whip-smart enough to know “the beauties of voltmeter and oscilloscope.” But underneath the beautifully measured sheen and spark of these bright stanzas, is a human who opens up thrilling new worlds by also fearlessly inhabiting poems of sorrow, survival, and identity– one whose “tongue is alive with lasers and [whose] song attracts thousands.” –Aimee Nezhukumatathil “Like a game of chess, the making of bombs is delicate,” writes Jeannine Gailey, making poems that are both delicate and explosive. This book is a daring, inventive, virtuoso performance. Here, we meet Robot Scientist’s Daughter – a medical wonder – “she’s a soldier, a savior, a ship to bear prisoners into space.” In subtle, playful, courageous poems, we are witnessing a brilliant performance.” –Ilya Kaminsky

For some early reviews: Book Recommendations and Reviews A License to Quill Younger Than That Now About the Poet: Jeannine Hall Gailey recently served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She’s the author of four books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, and her latest, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, from Mayapple Press. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review and Prairie Schooner. Available on Amazon:

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Tour Stops:

April 16: Savvy Verse & Wit (interview)
April 17: Tea Leaves (review)
April 24: Peeking Between the Pages (review)
April 24: Patricia’s Wisdom (review)
April 28: Everything Distils Into Reading (review)
April 29: Suko’s Notebook (review)

Aug. 27: Book Snob (review)