A Letter from Melanie and Conner
February 18, 2021
Dear SAL community, As you learned last week, Ruth will be leaving SAL at the end of April to become the next Executive Director of the National Book Foundation.
SAL/ON
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Finding a Home in the Odyssey: A WITS Intern Reflects on Event with Madeline Miller
February 17, 2021
Akshaya Ajith, a high school student doing a remote internship with the Writers in the Schools program at SAL, attended SAL’s Literary Arts Series event with Madeline Miller, the author of Circe and...
News from SAL’s Executive Director
February 11, 2021
Dear friends, I am writing with news that is deeply bittersweet. As you may have seen today, at the end of April, I will leave SAL to become the next Executive Director of the National Book Foundation...
“Somewhere” by Kai Ryan
February 8, 2021
Somewhere, deep in the valley, I sit in the darkness. I am reading; it is intriguing. As I sit reading, the words seem to fly off the page and into the night sky. The words seem to illuminate the mead...
What’s Worth Retelling: A WITS Intern Reflects on Madeline Miller’s Event
February 4, 2021
Zoë Mertz is a University of Washington student doing a remote internship with the Writers in the Schools program at SAL. After attending SAL’s recent Literary Arts Series event with Madeline M...
“The Giant Chicken” by Samara Kingfisher
February 2, 2021
At a word, we jump, run, and jostle our way to a far corner, vying for a spot on the cushioned couch instead of the cold floor. We attempt to be quiet and hold in our laughter as we peek over the edge...
Maeve Kenney reads “Ars Poetica”
January 26, 2021
“There’s a reason Sappho wrote in her complex hexameter.” 2019/20 Youth Poet Laureate cohort member Maeve Kenney reads her poem “Ars Poetica,” which she performed before ...
“I Used to Own a Sky Full of Stars” by Luella Seamans
January 21, 2021
I am the breeze that hits you on a cold day I am the perfect but imperfect plant you try to grow I am the expected but unexpected snow on a chilling night I am the rain that disturbs a sunny day But I...
Faces of SAL: Jim Duncan
January 20, 2021
We have a few new faces on the SAL Board of Directors to introduce to you over the coming weeks! Most of our board members began their SAL journey the same way you did as readers and event-goers. Lear...
Still Loving the World: Kathleen Flenniken on Maggie Smith
January 15, 2021
This essay is part of a series in which Poetry Northwest partners with Seattle Arts & Lectures to present reflections on visiting writers from the SAL Poetry Series. On Friday, January 22, Maggie ...