Teen center to hold comic book workshop on Tuesday
Published 1:32 pm Friday, October 21, 2011
On Tuesday, the Old Fire House Teen Center at 16510 N.E. 79th St. will hold a creative writing and mythology workshop from 6 to 8 p.m.
The workshop, “Poetry: Comic Book Superheroes, Mythology, and You,” is part of a series of workshops produced by the Redmond Association of Spokenword (RASP) and cosponsored by the Redmond Arts Commission and Friends of the Redmond Library.
The workshop will be taught by poet Jeannine Hall Gailey. This two-hour adventure in creative writing and mythology, will cover superheroes and their mythological tie-ins such as Wonder Woman and the myth of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. There will be exercises in which participants write an origin story for a comic book character that draws on mythological backgrounds or write poems in the voices of both comic book and mythological characters.
Gailey is the author of “Becoming the Villainess” and “She Returns to the Floating World.” Her work has been featured on National Public Radio’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in journals such as The Iowa Review, The Seattle Review and Prairie Schooner. For more information, visit www.webbish6.com.
The workshop is free to students in the Lake Washington School District and class credit is available. For more information or to register for the class, e-mail ofh@redmond.gov or call (425) 556-2300. Ask for class #38152.
