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'I hope we grow tender enough, again.' Seattle's Youth Poet Laureate captures Seattle's growing pains

Azura Tyabji says the city’s rapid growth this last year embodies her own childhood.

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December 13th | Who gets to live in Seattle?

Randy Shaw, Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, says single-family homeowners are at least partially to blame for an increasingly unaffordable city. Also, poet and educator Quenton Baker gives us a preview of his first installation at the Frye Museum. And we get advice on how to answer your boss, when she or he asks you, "How was your weekend?"

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A second life: The poetry of Iraqi-American Dunya Mikhail

'I'm beginning to hear a needle drop.' Poet reflects on family ghosts

Denver poet Diana Khoi Nguyen's family is haunted by bees. It's easier for them to speak about the bees than it is to speak about her brother's suicide....

Love letters to a past and future assassin

"In a second I'll tell you how little writing rescues." That promise, from the opening poem of Terrance Hayes' "American Sonnets for My Past and Future...

#NewsPoet: Talking to your kids after a school shooting

In the wake of school shootings like the one in Parkland, Florida this year, parents are asking: "How do I talk to my child about mass shootings?" KUOW...

#NewsPoet: Witnessing the last execution in Washington

News stories can be disturbing sometimes, but KUOW has a way to help process these stories. We call it #NewsPoet — and it involves a Pacific Northwest...

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Performing blackness in white spaces — including on public radio

Poet Imani Sims sits down with Carvell Wallace, New York Times magazine contributor and host of the podcast "Closer Than They Appear," for an honest conversation about performing blackness in white spaces.