Poetry

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'You Are Here' and you are writing. Readers get creative for National Poetry Month

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a poem of your own — you delivered.
- Katie Campbell
What's the KUOW Book Club reading in April?

In partnership with the Seattle Public Library, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" this month.
- Katie Campbell
Seattle Reads + KUOW Book Club: Celebrating National Poetry Month with local voices

In partnership with SPL, the KUOW Book Club will read "You Are Here" in April, which is National Poetry Month.
- Katie Campbell
Poet Maggie Smith's search for self, understanding, and human connection

Poet Maggie Smith will read from and talk about her work on June 8 at Hugo House.
- Paige Browning
Love and self-discovery etched with pain, the journey of Seattle's youth poet laureate

Soundside is teaming up with youth-produced RadioActive to revisit some of the young people featured on the youth-produced show in a segment called "RadioActive Rewind." In this episode, producers tracked down Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Sah Pham, who is celebrating the release of her first book of poetry, "LOVELIKE."
- Hans Anderson
Poetry in Bloom: 30 days of Seattle-centric themes and verses

A note from Seattle Civic Poet, Shin Yu Pai.
- Shin Yu Pai
Poet Sara Marie Ortiz on what the moon has to teach us

Poet Sara Marie Ortiz looks at Seattle's landscape from a bird's-eye view, while contemplating natural and urban worlds, ever-present change, and all that's mutable.
- Shin Yu Pai
Poet Nadine Maestas on psychedelic journeying and seeing the sacred in everything

In "I Dreamt that We Ate Mushrooms Together," poet Nadine Antoinette Maestas brings the reader along on a sacred and immersive journey of becoming one again with nature, to remind humans of our own fundamental wildness.
- Shin Yu Pai
Poet Raul Sanchez on finding a voice that transcends language and borders

Raul Sanchez's poetry reflects an influence of American culture tangled with Sanchez's Mexican roots.
- Alec Cowan
Haiku comics artist David Lasky on the textures of Seattle

David Lasky combines poetry and comics in his creative practice, to craft 3-panel narrative sequential art that explores his everyday observations of living here. A practitioner and teacher of haiku comics, Lasky brings together language with simple drawings and patterns that startle the imagination.
- Shin Yu Pai

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