Meet Seattle's First Civic Poet: Claudia Castro Luna Seattle’s first-ever civic poet sees fertile ground for verse in this city’s “time of transition” amid rapid growth. Claudia Castro Luna, appointed... Ross Reynolds Jason Pagano
Leaving The Convent And Finding Passion Through Poetry Madeline DeFrees published her first poem at the age of 12. It was called “Sympathy,” written for a Portland newspaper poetry contest. Marcie Sillman
A Nurse Offers An Elegy For Her Patient For the past five years, Martha Kreiner, a registered nurse and a poet, has tended to the medical needs of people living on Seattle's streets through... Elizabeth Austen
Meet Seattle's First Youth Poet Laureate Seattleites love their poetry. The city is home to one of the nation's few poetry-only bookstores, Open Books, in the Wallingford neighborhood. The... Marcie Sillman
Courtship On The American Frontier Imagined By Modern Poet Over the past couple of decades, Jana Harris has written a series of poetry collections that blend exhaustive research with "documentary imagination,"... Elizabeth Austen
Seattle Is Getting A Poetic New Post Marcie Sillman speaks with Elizabeth Austen, Washington state poet laureate, about a new poetry post in Seattle. The city will name a civic poet for... Marcie Sillman Kate O'Connell
Poet Terrance Hayes On 'The Poetics Of Liquid' Seattle Arts & Lectures finished its most recent poetry series with a visit from multiple award-winning poet Terrance Hayes. Fellow poet Cornelius... John O'Brien
Poet Anastacia Tolbert: 'What To Tell My Sons After Trayvon Martin' Elizabeth Austen presents a piece by poet Anastacia Tolbert, a writer, performance artist and workshop facilitator. She's also a black woman and the... Elizabeth Austen
Jane Hirshfield On Turning To Poetry In Grief Elizabeth Austen speaks with Jane Hirshfield, a fellow poet and long-time practitioner of Zen Buddhism. Hirshfield is the author of eight books of... Elizabeth Austen
Poems Deliver Sunflowers For Fukushima, Foxglove For Oso Marcie Sillman speaks with Washington Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen, who shares two poems about disasters, manmade and natural. Elizabeth Austen
