My Inaugural Reading Tomorrow at SecondStory, A Story at Redmond Reporter and My Week of Unfortunate Events

If you are out on the East side and looking for something to do on Saturday afternoon, be sure to come by at 4 PM at SecondStory Repertory at the Redmond Town Center. I hear the new Redmond Poet Laureate is going to be reading for her Inaugural Poetry Reading and Party with an interactive art show by Michaela Eaves! (It’s similar to a laser show at a rock concert, but, you know, with poetry and art instead of lasers and rock music.) 20 minutes of poetry, followed by an hour of art and reception fun!
I’ve put together a good setlist of geeky poetry, appropriate for our techie-type community and my current Poet Laureate slogan (art work, of course, courtesy of Michaela as well,) there will be free snacks and drinks, and you will get to meet and mingle will all the artistic types on the East side and beyond! I promise you will have more fun than the usual poetry reading!

The Redmond Reporter kindly did an interview and article about the event and my goals as Poet Laureate here: http://www.redmond-reporter.com/entertainment/172850521.html
Thanks to Samantha Pak who wrote the article and did the interview!

Now, the last week, during which I’ve been trying to put together the above event, has been a little trying. It started when I knocked one of my front teeth loose, leading to emergency dental work. On the way home from the dental work, my cell phone died for good – right at the same second that our car, full of groceries, shut down unexpectedly – as in, everything turned off all at once – on the highway, forcing us to pull off and contemplate our lack of warranties or triple A service (our other roadside assistance program had, to our surprise, expired sometime during the last few months – along with our warranty.) All of this has led to a great deal of unexpected outlay of cash (Many dollars out of our budget, which was already stretched thin with the new townhouse and student loan payments) so we are now dead broke with a broken car and a broken cell phone a day before my very first official Poet Laureate event. Yay! (?)

I promise I have been trying to see the silver lining in the last few weeks’ events, which now include food poisioning, a concussion, a severely ailing-and-expensive car, I think I might have re-sprained my ankle again yesterday along with my jaw (emergency dental work not good for TMJ, note to self),,,on the plus side, the Northwest is having some beautiful sunny weather.
If you would like to send some positive energy, prayers, alien laser blasts, or anything else my way, I could definitely use it. For tomorrow and for general luck.