Finally the wrist is feeling well enough to type a little more, so I’ll write this quick entry:

-I have officially signed on to teaching two weeks of middle school students in March 2008 and one week of high school students in June 2008 at Centrum as part of their Young Artists Program. I’m excited but also a little scared…I’ll be trying to squeeze an introduction to mythology, mythology connections in comic books, and creative writing exercises all into a week. On top of this, Centrum offers the folks who teach in the program an opportunity for a residency there in Port Townsend, which will be nice. My first ever independent, non-school-related residency.
Creating a whole new twisted generation of comic book poetry fans is a fun prospect. I haven’t worked with middle-school aged kids before, should be an interesting challenge (anyone with advice please leave comments!)

-I’ve had a chance to catch up on my reading (what with the tonisllitis and sprained wrist and all – this is the upside of downtime) – some mythology texts, a pretty decent anthology of prose poems, Atwood’s You are Happy. And I got to watch some episodes of Buffy season I, which I call “when Buffy was still fun,” which always makes me happy. Even wrote a couple of poems – three in two weeks, which is pretty good for me. I’m not the poem-a-day type, although I admire the effort others have been making this August.

-The new 41 cent Superhero stamps are out at the Post Office. Elektra and the X-Men make appeareances. I now have two sheets.