Poetry in Public: Places of Landing

Poetry in Public brings communities together through the written word, celebrating local voices by featuring poems written by King County residents in shared spaces.

Our 2023-2025 theme, Places of Landing, embraces the poetry of our daily lives by honoring the movements, places, and feelings that tell the stories of our days. Everyone can be a poet!

Featured Poet

Jessica Towns

Shoreline

Featured image for Birthtown

Birthtown

Paragliders

drifted through

the quilty green hillscape

each summer

by the dozen.

Over plumes

of cookout smoke

and choir hymns

they soared,

earnest as the sockeyes

returning upcreek,

sloping toward

a warm, clover-rich meadow

my sneakers

ached to meet.

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