Geek Girl Con Poetry Panel and other Redmond Poet Laureate Business

Where in the World is Redmond's Poet Laureate, you ask?

Last weekend, I presented a panel on Geek Girl Poetry at the sprawlingly successful second Geek Girl Con.

A little write up of our panel is up at Paperdroids. Here's an excerpt:
“Monster Brides, Robots, Superheroines, and Anime Girls: Geek Girl Poets!” was devoted entirely to geek-themed poetry. Jeannine Hall Gailey, author of She Returns to the Floating World (Kitsune Books) and Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books), and Lana H. Ayers, author of A New Red (Pecan Grove Press), read some of their own poems, as well as poems from other women about female characters in pop-culture. It was a funny, inspiring panel and a good way to start the second day of the conference."
Thanks to Chelsea Novak for the shout out!
Despite being the first-thing-in-the-morning panel on Sunday, the second day of the Con, we had a lively, attentive audience who asked lots of questions and hailed from cities as far away as San Francisco! The audience actually cheered when I told them my Redmond Poet Laureate slogan: "Geeks for Poetry, Poetry for Geeks!"
If you're at all into any and all of the following: comic books, anime, science fiction, Buffy the Vampire Slayer or anything Joss-Whedon-related, post-apocalypse, amazons, unicorns, robots, women working in tech, cons where people actually shower, dressing up in costumes...you should definitely consider next year's Geek Girl Con. (And yes, males are welcome at Geek Girl Con...) Thanks to Jennifer K. Stuller for organizing this fantastic conference!

I'm conjuring up all kinds of poetry fun for fall 2012. Stay tuned!