Play Summer Book Bingo
May 24, 2018
Everyone’s favorite summer reading challenge is back for both adults and kids! Download your adult board here or pick one up at any Library branch. Keep track of your summer reads from now until...
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Three Poems by Wei Wei Lee
May 23, 2018
dear sweet sister. A language can span the widest gaps – political, social, agewise or other. She’s pleasantly surprised and so am I, our words tripping, tumbling, spilling like a spring, like...
“If You Had a Mask,” by Siri Gannholm
May 17, 2018
If You Had a Mask It would be woven out of feathers and would obscure all of you as if you had been swallowed whole by your own mouth and shame Broken glass would be your crown the remnants of your da...
How to Listen to Water
May 16, 2018
This season, SAL’s friends at Poetry Northwest are partnering with us to present reflections on visiting writers from our Poetry Series. Below, Michelle Peñaloza reviews Oceanic, the collection ...
GiveBIG 2018 was a success!
May 15, 2018
Thank you to everyone that helped make GiveBIG 2018 a success. With the help of 27 generous donors, SAL raised $4,242.90! Thank you for believing in the power of words and making it possible to bring ...
Required Reading: Ariel Levy
May 14, 2018
By Stephany Kim, SAL Intern As part of our Required Reading series, we share a list of three essential works from SAL’s featured writers. Up this time: The New Yorker journalist and nonfiction...
The Hearts We Carry: Poetry at Seattle Children’s Hospital
May 10, 2018
By Ann Teplick, WITS Writer-in-Residence For seven years, through SAL’s Writers in the Schools, I have been writing poetry with children and teens at Seattle Children’s Hospital. For seven yea...
Join us for SAL’s 2018/19 Season!
May 8, 2018
We’re thrilled to announce select speakers for our 2018/19 Literary Arts Series and our brand new three-part Journalism Series. The Literary Arts Series presents original talks with the leading ...
Required Reading: Viet Thanh Nguyen
May 2, 2018
As part of our Required Reading series, we share a list of three essential works from SAL’s featured writers. Up this time: Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar & author of The Sympathizer, Nothing Ev...
WITS Voices: Coming Out Trans While Teaching
May 2, 2018
By Cody Pherigo, WITS Writer-in-Residence I had the opportunity to come out as transgender in my classrooms this year, an action that was never on the table when I was in high school and still ...