“Shadow of the Mississippi,” by Da’Sund Fiir Heller
May 2, 2019
Shadow of the Mississippi I fear the loss of such… reading For May falls into the hands of the river Against pressures of stream… then keeps flowing into thighs of the Mississ...
SAL/ON
A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures
Category: Youth Programs
“The Fox and the Rabbit,” by Jones Kasperson
April 26, 2019
The Fox and the Rabbit At moonhigh, the night sky is ink in water, spreading to all cracks and crevices. The fox’s nose and whiskers whimper to the scent of rabbit. As it crawls to its prey, its bel...
Simply Where We Live
April 22, 2019
This essay is part of a series in which Poetry Northwest partners with Seattle Arts & Lectures to present reflections on visiting writers from our 2018/19 Poetry Series. Francisco Aragón a...
“[Untitled America Poem],” by Maia Pody
[Untitled America Poem] If great means impressive then yes though I’m easily impressed by American dream teen movie queen bees preordained aspirations and silverware sets six generations needs more ...
“Ancestry Isn’t Just Some DNA Test,” by Hiroshi Sakauye
April 5, 2019
Ancestry Isn’t Just Some DNA Test A Letter to My Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandmother I wonder what your name was. Did it taste like bitter Mount Fuji snow, or sweet dirt from Aokig...
Something Silent in Us Strengthens
March 18, 2019
This essay is part of a series in which Poetry Northwest partners with Seattle Arts & Lectures to present reflections on visiting writers from our 2018/19 Poetry Series. Ilya Kaminsky reads a...
WITS Voices: Poetry as Disruption
March 13, 2019
By Christina Lee Barnes, WITS Writer-in-Residence My first-ever WITS residency started off with a fire drill. I’d made it about halfway through my introduction when the loudspeaker cut me off with a...
WITS Voices: The Tale of the Eloquent Sixth Graders
March 8, 2019
By Laura Gamache, WITS Writer-in-Residence Good writing depends on the author or poet knowing far more about what they are writing than what they put down on paper, and the same probably goes for teac...
“Homeland,” by Daniel Flores
March 5, 2019
Homeland My family is from Nicaragua. Where the lush grass is green, and the exotic trees are like something from a Dr. Seuss book. The most interesting person in my family to me is my grandma, her ac...
The 2018/2019 Elaine Wetterauer Writing Contest Winners & Chapbook
February 27, 2019
Every year, Seattle Arts & Lectures’ Writers in the Schools (WITS) program holds the Elaine Wetterauer Writing Contest to celebrate the wisdom, creativity, and heart captured in student and teac...