Faces of Bushwick: Ben Mish
November 11, 2021
To celebrate our longtime partnership with Bushwick Book Club Seattle, we’re speaking with local musicians who have composed and performed songs inspired by the written works of SAL speakers. Learn...
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Five Questions: Indira Dahlstrom, WITS Program Coordinator
November 10, 2021
A warm welcome to Indira Dahlstrom, our new WITS Program Coordinator! To introduce her to the SAL community, we asked Indira five questions—get to know her below! Welcome to the team! Can you tell u...
Introductions: Jelani Cobb
November 10, 2021
By Rebecca Hoogs, Executive Director It is my great honor to introduce Jelani Cobb tonight. We are here to celebrate his work as a journalist and his most recent work as editor, along with David Remni...
“Constructed Caffeine” by WITS Student Jessica Phan
November 8, 2021
………………….. I like to drink coffee on sweet-illed mornings yet I don’t have an appetite f or time.
CAT Partner Spotlight: Chief Seattle Club
November 5, 2021
Our Community Access Tickets (CAT) program welcomes people into the SAL community by eliminating price as a barrier. For the next quarter, the CAT program will be co-presented with Chief Seattle Club....
Everywhere Is [Beautifully] Dreamed in the Poetry of Sherwin Bitsui: A Critical Found Response
November 4, 2021
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, November 5, Sherwin...
“A Poem of Silence” by WITS Student Saioa Ouyoumjian
October 29, 2021
Words. Everywhere and nowhere. Everything begins with them, a poem, a friendship, a thought. To have silence, is to have words. To have peace, is to have words. Floating around you unseen. You think t...
Five Questions with Amy Hirayama
October 28, 2021
In a new initiative at Writers in the Schools, our WITS writer corps is being joined by two apprentices, Amy Hirayama and Brian Dang, who will further their K-12 creative writing education skills with...
Five Questions with Brian Dang
October 28, 2021
In a new initiative at Writers in the Schools, our WITS writer corps is being joined by two apprentices, Brian Dang and Amy Hirayama, who will further their K-12 creative writing education skills with...
“No Name! No Title! Just Real Life!” by WITS Student Zavye’ Rivers-Joseph
October 27, 2021
Here is to my Parents my two grandmothers too, who do so much for me in everything I do. Here’s to my ancestors. The ones before me The ones who paved the way so I could be whoever or whatever ...