“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...
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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...
Introductions: Maggie Smith
January 30, 2021
By Rebecca Hoogs, SAL Associate Director Maggie Smith is the author of three books of poetry and just this fall, a book of micro-essays entitled Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. You...
Introductions: Madeline Miller
January 29, 2021
By Ruth Dickey, SAL Executive Director In one of my favorite passages in Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller writes of the first time that Patroclus hears Achilles play the lyre: His fingers touched the...
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 ...
A Decade of Letterpress: Ryan Polich
January 14, 2021
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 letterp...