Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Chapbook Launch

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Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Chapbook Launch

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 7:00 pm PST

06/24/2025 7:00 pm 06/24/2025 America/Los_Angeles Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Chapbook Launch https://lectures.org/event/youth-poet-laureate-chapbook-launch/ Elliott Bay Book Company

At Elliott Bay Book Company

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Please join us in celebrating the launch of the 2024/25 Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Janae Lu’s chapbook. Published by Poetry Northwest Editions this is the tenth edition of the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate series. Janae Lu will read from the collection alongside other talented poets. After the reading, copies of the chapbook will be available for purchase.

This event is free and open to the public.

Janae Lu is a young writer who writes to champion the inherent beauty of scientific narratives and is inclined toward free-verse poetry and creative prose. She is a junior at Tesla STEM High School, the chair of the Redmond Teen Advisory Board, and a second-year member of the Seattle Youth Poetry Fellowship. When not writing, she can be found doing endless amounts of homework, overanalyzing Taylor Swift songs, and adding to her forever growing book collection.

About the Seattle Youth Poetry Fellowship (YPF):

The Youth Poetry Fellowship serves a cohort of young writers committed to poetry, performance, civic and community engagement, education, and equity across the Puget Sound region. Over the course of the school year, fellows meet regularly for workshops with the Youth Poetry Fellowship mentors. Fellows also have numerous public opportunities to share their voices, leadership, and love of Seattle throughout the course of the year. One of the fellows serves as the Youth Poet Laureate and writes a poetry collection published by Poetry NW Editions.

Event Details

Elliott Bay Book Company

1521 10th Ave

Seattle, WA 98122

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Transportation & Parking

Located in Capitol Hill, The Elliott Bay Book Company is served by the #2 bus, and is close to the #10 bus stop.

Parking is free street parking for 2 hours.

Please see The Elliott Bay Book Company website for more details.

Accessibility

The Readings Room is located below ground level. There is an elevator at the front of the store, to the right of the front steps, that takes riders down to the level where they can access the event space. For any attendees who wish to use it, there is a doorbell by the elevator that when rung buzzes at the front counter. This will alert an EBBC staff member, who will come outside to call up the elevator and to meet riders below so they can guide them to the Readings Room.

If you would like to notify EBBC ahead of time that you’ll need access to the elevator, please call the store at 206-624-6600 to let them know your arrival time.For those event attendees who don’t plan to use the elevator, please note that we have five steps at the front of the store leading up to our front door. Once you access the store, you’ll need to walk to the back of the main floor, approximately 55 feet. There you’ll find a staircase with eighteen steps leading down to the event space.