What Kind of Poetry Activities Are You Looking for In Redmond?

So, I'm finalizing my proposal for a year's worth of poetry activities, and I'd love to hear from you what kinds of poetry activities, programs, readings, panels, workshops, etc Redmond needs. What do you feel we have covered already, and what are we missing?

I'd love to get your feedback on some of my ideas, including:

--Poetry readings with featured artist exhibits and salons
--Geek Talks - Poetry panels with local poets about subjects that might be familiar to Redmond-ites - math, science, computer code, comic books, etc...
--Redmond Reads Poetry - a Community Reading Series that would pick one book per quarter to read together. The Redmond library will provide some copies of the book to check out, and Soul Food Books will carry the quarterly book choice as well. (Open Books in Wallingford is a great choice for poetry book shopping outside Redmond...) The library will also host one reading and Q&A by the author of the chosen book.
--Panels on Cross-Cultural Poetry
--Teen workshops, Outreach events in Seattle to let people know about Redmond poetry programs...

What do you think? Let me know in the comments..

A New Poet Laureate, A New Place to Find Poetry

H there! My name is Jeannine Hall Gailey, and I'm Redmond's new Poet Laureate! Since Redmond's known for its technology brainpower, and a lot of the poetry in my books has been inspired by subjects like comic book superheroines, Japanese pop culture, and robots, I think it's appropriate that the slogan for my term is "Poetry for Geeks; Geeks for Poetry."

I'm hoping to create in this blog a Redmond community resource to find out about all the cool poetry stuff going on in Redmond. I hope that can be a great launch pad for you all to tell me what you are looking for in terms of information, kinds of events, and ways to connect to other poets in the Redmond area. What are you looking for from your new Poet Laureate? I'd like to know! Would you like to see more readings? workshops? I'm hoping to build up our community calender to show all kinds of poetry-related events in our neighborhoods as well.