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Laura

Laura

Portland, Oregon

I'm a little tea cup.

March Prompt! Close Encounters of Your Younger Kind

The next Broken Planetarium will be Saturday, March 14th @ 7:00. The theme is close encounters with your younger kind. What would you do if you encountered your five year old self? What would you say? This month, make a piece of art that would speak to your five year

Laura Christina Dunn's poetry chapbook now available!

Many of you who have been coming to the planetariums have seen the poems I was working on last spring for this chapbook. I am so excited to tell you that Spider Blue has been published by Dancing Girl Press. Thank you for all your support, edits, courage, and co-

Unfinished Business: December 2014

The next Broken Planetarium (before a January hiatus for The Snow Queen production) will be Friday, December 19th. The theme is Unfinished Business. Bring in a painting of the rusty, bottom half of the new Tilikum Crossing bridge with the top a shadowed sky. Bring in a sestina with only

Dark and Dirty: November 2014

The theme is dark and dirty! Create out of your sexy shadow. Create something that examines what parts of you that are kept underground, making out with Hades while your mom weeps through the winter. Write a burlesque featuring those misogynist literary characters you secretly want to do (HEATHCLIFF, anyone?

Collaborate/Complicate: October 2014

Collaborate! Complicate! Work with a partner in a different genre than your own, and create a piece that tells a famous story from another side. Write Birth on the Orient Express, paint Mona Lisa's derrière, animate a cartoon where the roadrunner finally gets shot and eaten for thanksgiving,

Love to Hate it: August 2014

The theme is "love to hate it." Create something inspired by a hatred that holds a special place in your heart. Like Juliet crushing on a capulet in a hawaiian shirt, make your one horny adolescent longing spring from your one hate. Paint Jack Johnson's handsome

Excreta Exhibit: July 2014

The theme is The Excreta Exhibit. Put on display what you usually throw away.Like the janitor James Hampton building a throne room out of gum wrappers, shards of metal, and broken lightbulbs that he found at his work (The Thrown of the Third Heaven of the Nation's