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

Catherine Broadwall

Bellevue

Featured image for Home Again

Home Again

That first bus ride after moving
back to Washington, I cooed over
everything, enraptured.

The brick of King Street Station
seeming folkloric, enchanting.
Oceanic firs blurring by windows,

a symphony of light.
Even the pigeons seemed elegant,
profound. This is what comes

from loving a place: you see
beauty everywhere.

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