SAL/ON

A Blog of Seattle Arts & Lectures

Category: McClure Middle School

WITS Voices: Poetry as Disruption

March 13, 2019

By Christina Lee Barnes, WITS Writer-in-Residence My first-ever WITS residency started off with a fire drill. I’d made it about halfway through my introduction when the loudspeaker cut me off with a garbled a reminder that students would file out to the field in the last ten minutes of class. Covert murmurs of excitement rippled […]

“My Blankie,” by WITS Student Daniella Edwards

November 6, 2015

Daniella Edwards wrote this comic while a student at McClure Middle School in 2014-15, with WITS Writer-in-Residence Greg Stump. She read it to open for Alison Bechdel, the first presenter in SAL’s Women You Need to Know series.

SAL on Twitter

3 Mar

We're boosting this free event which will take place this Thursday at 12:30 featuring Helena Goos from our Youth Poet Laureate Cohort, SU Distinguished Visiting Poet Anastacia Reneé, and more! Thank you, Seattle University, for promoting local writing!

1 Mar

The Seattle Public Library & SAL are so pleased to announce that Tessa Hulls will be drawing our 2021 Summer Book Bingo Board! Every year, we partner with @SPLBuzz to create a card as part of a free program of summer reading fun. Learn more about Tessa: https://lectures.org/community/blog/

28 Feb

Bill Bryson shared many astounding facts about the body during his SAL talk. And while some mysteries remained mysteries, we learned a lot about our bodies' complexities and miracles. Thank you to Bill and to our Opus sponsor, @DWTLaw, for an insightful and delightful evening!

27 Feb

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