“And They Do” by Helena Goos
November 9, 2020
The silence stretches, yawning across the land. Quiet, so quiet. A strange reverie, unbroken by sound. The bombs have stopped. The children, born in a wo...
SAL/ON
A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures
Category: Student Writing
An Interview with Laura Da’ & Arianne True, Co-Mentors of Seattle’s Youth Poet Laureate Program
October 21, 2020
By Gabriela Denise Frank As our nation’s underpinnings come under greater scrutiny, I’ve been in a parallel process of personal inquiry, digging into generational and cultural foundations that h...
To Be in the Truth of Us: Dujie Tahat on Claudia Rankine’s “Just Us”
October 20, 2020
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...
“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 Interview with Aaron Counts & Matt Gano, Co-Founders of Seattle’s Youth Poet Laureate Program
September 29, 2020
By Gabriela Denise Frank Poet Aaron Counts, co-founder of Seattle’s Youth Poet Laureate (YPL) program, described the power of poetry to me this way: “A great poem helps you understand yourself and...
An Interview with Ruth Dickey, Poet & Author of “Mud Blooms”
September 22, 2020
By Gabriela Denise Frank Has there been a year when hunger rumbled more prominently in our minds than our bellies? Months ago, I gave up searching for flour and yeast, items perpetually out of stock, ...
“Ocean Radish”: Collaborative Poetry with Samar Abulhassan & Sierra Nelson
July 13, 2020
At the beginning of Washington State’s Stay Home, Stay Healthy order, WITS Writers-in-Residence Samar Abulhassan and Sierra Nelson began sending letters to one another, filled with their daily o...
“To the Moon” by Stella Hoffman Logan
July 2, 2020
We’re pleased to share a poem from one of our Writers in the Schools students to celebrate the “Buck Moon” or “Thunder Moon” that will accompany the Lunar Eclipse on the ...
“To Who I Think: I Want These Things to Stop,” by Ebenezer Tewolde
June 26, 2020
Although we couldn’t share a reading from our Writers in the Schools student to open our 2019/20 Literary Arts Series event with Carol Anderson, we’re pleased to be able to share the poem...
“My Wishes,” by Rey Manjarrez
May 27, 2020
My Wishes I wish I had my new heart and could leave the hospital. I wish all my friends would not be sick or hurt or bullied or punched. I wish I didn’t have what I have right now. I wish no animals...