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Today's poem is "They Are Waiting"

from Boulevard

Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She's 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, winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and the SFPA's Elgin Award. She's also the author of PR for Poets: A Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry.

Other poems by Jeannine Hall Gailey in Verse Daily:
June 3, 2019:   "Fairy Tale Redacted" "Once I was born in a place I do not recall...."
July 21, 2017:   "The Last Love Poem" "I am obsolete as my ancestors, the Appalachian glass blowers..."
June 10, 2015:   "Advice from the Robot Scientist's Daughter" "After all, the moon has fallen asleep and you are alone...."
December 12, 2013:   "She Had Unexplained Fevers" "some nights she just wasn?t..."
July 16, 2011:   "Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding" "Better to be the lover than the beloved, you'll have passion...."
July 13, 2007:   "The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife" " I could have kept you..."
April 30, 2006:   "When Red Becomes the Wolf" " In my dream you brought me fired bologna sandwiches...."
April 5, 2006:   "Femme Fatale" " Even our names sound delicious..."
March 1, 2005:  "Wonder Woman Dreams of the Amazon" "I miss the tropes of Paradise—green vines..."

Books by Jeannine Hall Gailey:

Other poems on the web by Jeannine Hall Gailey:
"We Dream of Freedom"
Two poems
"Winter Solstice in Seattle"
Two poems
Three poems
"East of Sun, West of the Moon"
"The Case of the Missing. . ."
"They Say You Can't Go Home Again"
"Self-Portrait as Escape Artist"
Three poems
Five poems
Three poems
"In Which I Declare My Resistance"
Four poems
"At the End of Time (Wish You Were Here)"
"April in Middle Age"
"Cesium Burns Blue"
"Elemental"
"Elemental"
Four poems
"The Robot Scientist's Daughter [apocalypse]"
"Appalachian Childhoods Look Much More Picturesque"
Five poems
Six poems
Four poems
Two poems
"Female Comic Book Superheroes"
Two poems
"Allerleirauh Reveals Her True Self to the Prince"
"To a Self-Proclaimed Manic Depressive Ex-Stripper Poet, After a Reading"
"Sleeping Beauty Loves the Needle"
"The Snow Queen"
"The Robot Scientist's Daughter [Before]"
"I Forgot to Tell You the Most Important Part. . ."

Jeannine Hall Gailey's Home Page.

Jeannine Hall Gailey according to Wikipedia.

Jeannine Hall Gailey on Twitter.

About Boulevard:

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Other poems from Boulevard in Verse Daily:
November 13, 2020:   "Teach Me to Say Goodbye" by Katherine Smith
May 13, 2020:   "Poem for Tidying Up" by Laura Paul Watson
May 11, 2020:   "Picture Day" by John Sibley Williams
June 12, 2019:   "The Way You Hold Your Knife" Dick Allen
June 11, 2019:   "On Kingdoms" Joanna Klink
June 10, 2019:   "Calenture" Allison Hutchcraft
February 2, 2018:   "The Song of the Practical" by Albert Goldbarth
January 31, 2018:   "Triceratops ♥ You" by Owen McLeod
May 11, 2017:   "Pennies from Heaven" by John Blair
July 22, 2016:   "Ghost Encounter" by Annah Browning
December 13, 2015:   "Room Key" by David Lehman
December 11, 2015:   "It Does Kind of Burn. Goodbye." by Henry Crawford
December 10, 2015:   "The Night and the Cold" by Charles Simic
November 5, 2014:   "At Last" by Gerald Stern
November 3, 2014:   At Last by Edward Nobles
January 16, 2013:   "Report from the Provinces" by Wayne Miller

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