Looking for something to do with mom tomorrow? Come to VALA 3:30 PM Saturday for a Once Upon a Time Poetry and Art Show!
- At May 10, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Where? VALA Art Center at Redmond Town Center (next to the Starbucks on the lower level)
When? Saturday, May 11th at 3:30
Who? Readers include:
Jeannine Hall Gailey, reading from her new fairy tale poetry book, Unexplained Fevers
Plus Fairy Tale poems read by local poets:
Kelly Davio
Laura Lee Bennett
Pamela Denchfield
Rebecca Woods Meredith
Dawn-Marie Oliver
Liz Hayden
and fairy tale art from Tacoma artist Michaela Eaves! Plus VALA’s new ceramics show!
Serving champagne, sparkling juice, sparkling water, an assortment of appetizers from Matt’s (a lovely little Redmond Town Center dining spot) and Glenn-made gluten-free chocolate cupcakes with pink pomegranate frosting.
Who should come? Everyone, especially girls who just want to have fun and celebrating mothers of every sort! And anyone who likes art and poetry in Redmond! And anyone who has ever said, there’s an arts center in Redmond? Yes there is!
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
