“R” by Roberto Contreras
May 28, 2021
Roberto Contreras, of Licton Springs K-8 School, read this poem to open our 2020/21 Poetry Series event with Alberto Ríos on Friday, May 28, 2021.
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Introducing the Winners of the 2021 Elaine Wetterauer Writing Contest
May 27, 2021
Our utmost congratulations to the 2021 Elaine Wetterauer Writing Contest winners and runners-up! Every year, Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program holds the Elaine Wette...
A Thousand Imaginations: What the Books of Alberto Ríos Say to Each Other
May 25, 2021
By Donna Miscolta This essay is part of a series in which Seattle Arts & Lectures partners with Poetry Northwest to present reflections on visiting writers from the SAL Poetry Series. On Friday, M...
Bookshop Superheroes: BookTree Kirkland
May 24, 2021
Bookstore workers and owners have been absolute essential workers during this pandemic—heroes on the frontlines of our mental health. After those first months when reading felt really hard, when the...
Go Inside a WITS Classroom Visit with Robin Wall Kimmerer
May 12, 2021
In April, a group of students from Big Picture High School had a soul-enriching conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, in which they discussed writing, attention, and care and nurturing for and from t...
“Gears of Time, Cogs of Life” by Finnegan Fant
May 8, 2021
Gears of time, cogs of life home is the trees rushing by as I speed down a mountain, the scent of pine sap as I leave the ground, the shocks of a downhill bike absorbing force as I slam back down to e...
“The Classroom is the Beach” by Violet Hilgenberg
May 7, 2021
Stools are crabs that crawl across the carpet sands Chairs are the horses that once rose from the sea Tables are the rocks that the stools hid under to escape from the projector that is a white snake ...
A Last Letter From Ruth
April 30, 2021
Dear friends, I arrived at SAL in the summer of 2013, and my very first SAL event was Malcolm Gladwell at Town Hall. I was so nervous that Rebecca basically had to push me out onto the stage to int...
“Help” by Paul Yoon
April 29, 2021
don’t forget the day students left this earth 250 teens don’t have a future their future like a mist their last cries help van...
Introductions: Robin Wall Kimmerer
April 27, 2021
By Ruth Dickey, SAL Executive Director In one of the essays in Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer writes about remembering the rituals with which her parents began days, saying, “Ceremonies la...