Jeannine Hall Gailey
Jeannine Hall Gailey is a poet with MS who served as Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She’s the author of six books of poetry, including her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, which was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Her work appears in journals like the American Poetry Review, JAMA, Ploughshares, and Poetry.
Reading List
Divination
Go ahead. Read the signs. Tell me my future. Send me a fortune. I don’t like the tarot deck. I detest horoscopes. I don’t let birthdates or moon cycles determine my fate. I draw my own figures in the sand. We spin our own stories here, no magic lamps or godmothers, no hedge of thorns […]
Introduction to Writer’s Block
It was right after they had taken a picture of my brain and showed me those dark shadows, called lesions. You said “You’ve lost your muse” and you took me to the movies, to museums, we walked along the ocean and in the mountains, and still I couldn’t write. “I’ve lost my words,” I told […]