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.

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23 Sep

Listen to WITS Writer Brian Dang read "Ideas in the Clouds," a poem by WITS student Flavia Sethy! Experience the impact of WITS firsthand at our WITS Fundraiser Celebration, where Brian will guide us through the writing lesson that inspired Flavia's poem: http://ow.ly/XbFa50KQUVI

22 Sep

We're only $56,923 away from our goal of raising $160,000 for Writers in the Schools! To donate and learn more about our 2022 Back-to-School Fundraiser for WITS, visit http://lectures.org/WITS2022

22 Sep

Our summer publishing interns Lucia Santos and Bayla Cohen-Knott have deep ties with SAL and WITS, and they recently sat down with us to tell all about their experiences with our youth programs! Read the interview and learn more about our fundraiser here: http://ow.ly/nQoq50KQTtG

21 Sep

The quote that resonated with me during our @SeaArtsLectures event @THSEA for Abdulrazak Gurnah in convo with @ProfSonoraJha : "I'm interested in the way in which people cope with being strangers in a different culture (either because of voluntary or forced migration)."#SALGurnah