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Jeannine Hall Gailey
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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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On the blog this week: November Chill, Book Publishing and PR Questions, and a Trip to Woodland Park Zoo: webbish6.com/november-chi...
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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My hot take: There is no such thing as "Toxic Empathy." There are people who have empathy for others, and there are toxic narcissists, bullies, and assholes. That's it. Those are your choices. #toxicempathydoesnotexist
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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On the blog this week: webbish6.com/beginning-no...
Beginning November: Time Changes, Halloween, and Talking to Poetry Students (plus, voting!) #halloween #voting #timechange #november
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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On the blog this week: A Week of Poetry Friends And Readings, Horror Poetry, Halloween/Samhain, and Some Real Life Scares: webbish6.com/a-week-of-po... #poets #readings #halloween #horrorpoetry
October 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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On the blog this week: Halloween, Horror Poetry, and the Big Dark Plus Upcoming Appearances and Poet Friend Visits: webbish6.com/upcoming-app...
October 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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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
October 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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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...
September 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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.
September 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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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
September 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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From @webbish6.bsky.social s book Flare, Corona: bookshop.org/a/862/9781950774920

#poem #books #writing
September 13, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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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?”
September 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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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
September 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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“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.
July 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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
August 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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On the blog this week: Parental Visits, End of Summer Flower Farms, and August Birds: webbish6.com/parental-vis... #birds #flowerfarms #parents
August 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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This week on the blog: Full Moons, Insomnia, End of Summer Gardens in Bloom, Questioning Writing at Midlife; webbish6.com/full-moons-i...
August 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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On the blog this week: Welcome to August: Broken Molars, Garden Parties, Cats and Cutting Flowers: webbish6.com/to-august-br...
August 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Some days are great. Some days, you wake up with a broken molar, spend the day at the dentist attending to the tooth, fall asleep at 4 PM and wake up wide awake and in pain at 2 AM.
August 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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On the blog this week: A Change in the Air, Lavender Festivals and Melancholy: webbish6.com/a-change-in-...
July 31, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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On the blog this week: New Nature Writing Conference in La Grande, Oregon, Wildfires, Ecology and Hope, Plus Being Grateful to Be Home: webbish6.com/new-nature-w...
July 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.
Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.
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July 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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FLARE is excited to announce our Best of the Net nominees! You can view the pieces on our website under the "Nominations" tab. Congrats, everyone! (1/2)
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FLARE Magazine logo of matches and heart flame, "Best of the Net Nominees For FLARE Magazine," arrow with "Swipe to the Next Slide" red background: Poetry: "Return Me to the Womb" by Alicia Swain (issue 1), "Skygazing" by Muheez Olawale (special issue 1), "No Sun Summer" by Oisín Rowe (issue 2), "my therapist is breaking up with me" by Sofía Aguilar (issue 2), "do you?" by Skye Saul (issue 3), and "There's Something Wrong With Me, She Said" by Jeannine Hall Gailey (issue 3) Arrow red background: Fiction: "1 p.m. on a Sunday" by Alice Lyon (issue 2), "Scales" by Laurie Doyle (issue 2); Creative Nonfiction: "The Privilege of Independence" by Chelsea Gerow (issue 1), "Am I a Spoonie?" by Wendy Kennar (issue 2), Arrow red background: Art: "Untitled" by Mario Loprete (special issue 1), "Ernogh the Goblin" by Ellen Forking (issue 2), "The COVID Nightmare" by Donald Patten (issue 3)
July 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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On the blog this week: It's Disability Awareness Month and I'm Writing Essays About It, The Big Bill Spells Disaster, Plus a New Poem in Cave Wall: webbish6.com/disability-a... #poems #bigbilldisaster #disabilityawareness
July 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM