SAL Announces 2017/18 Youth Poet Laureate and Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador
June 14, 2017
At the Northwest Folklife Festival on Saturday, May 27, Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) awarded the title of Seattle’s 2017/18 Youth Poet Laureate (YPL) to Lily Baumgart, age 17 of Garfield High School. SAL also named the the 2017/18 Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador, Namaka Auwae-Dekker, a 15-year-old student at Franklin High School. The announcement was preceded by a celebratory reading by all of the 2017/18 Youth Poet Laureate finalists. The 2016/17 Youth Poet Laureate, Angel Gardner, also read from her new collection of poetry, Blood Melody, published by Penmanship Books.