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
(w)rest
(w)rest
Leave home
with bravery of one step
into the unplanned
we thirst
daily micromigrations, sonder swept
among Seattle’s veins
rails&roads, waterways
into the next hour, next landing
cargando
nuestras historias en nuestros caminos
andamos
Orca cards, whispered,
an unpacked lunch
on tender grass
of new parks, (w)resting
on indigenous
land
(w)rest
(w)rest
Leave home
with bravery of one step
into the unplanned
we thirst
daily micromigrations, sonder swept
among Seattle’s veins
rails&roads, waterways
into the next hour, next landing
carrying
our stories on our paths
we go on
Orca cards, whispered,
an unpacked lunch
on tender grass
of new parks, (w)resting
on indigenous
land
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