Tech Tips for Streaming Events
November 6, 2020
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A Decade of Letterpress: Robin Kessler
October 29, 2020
Each year, in a project led by Sierra Nelson and Ann Teplick of Writers in the Schools, and the School of Visual Concepts, long-term patients from Seattle Children’s Hospital and a team of letterpre...
An Essay from “Seismic” by Anastacia-Renée
October 26, 2020
This essay appears in Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature, an anthology edited by Kristen Millares Young, featuring writers from all across the city. Seattle was designated a UNESCO City of Literatu...
A Letter from Ruth
October 20, 2020
Dear friends, As we nervously count down to the election, watch Coronavirus cases around the world climb steadily higher, and settle into the rain and dark, we’re all holding a steady drumbeat of un...
To Be in the Truth of Us: Dujie Tahat on Claudia Rankine’s “Just Us”
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, September 25, Claud...
Faces of SAL: Vicki Glant
By Jenn St. Claire, SAL Board Alumnus What an over the moon, joyful, and educational experience it was interviewing Vicki Glant, who partnered with Sherry Prowda back in 1989 to help realize Sherry’...
Faces of SAL: Cara Sutherland
October 14, 2020
From brochures to invitations to chapbooks and more, freelance graphic designer Cara Sutherland of Running Double Creative has been the big dreamer and doer behind much of SAL’s print and digita...
Introductions: Tana French in Conversation with Ruth Ware
October 13, 2020
By Ruth Dickey, SAL Executive Director We are here tonight to celebrate the publication of Tana French’s eagerly anticipated new novel, The Searcher. I will confess that Tana French is one of the wr...
“To Roam” by Asher McCracken
October 12, 2020
To roam the lost streets of words where you hear things you can never have heard on the surface Some smooth and fast, others loud and dangerous. You’re on earth within a library, a city within a boo...
An Essay from “Seismic” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
October 10, 2020
This essay appears in Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature, an anthology edited by Kristen Millares Young, featuring writers from all across the city. Seattle was designated a UNESCO City of Literatur...